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libito

libito

Italian

Adjective

libito m (plural libiti)

  1. That which pleases.
  2. pleasure, desire, lust, volition
    • 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno, Le Monnier (1994), Canto V, p. 75, vv. 55-57:
      «[...] A vizio di lussuria fu sì rotta, ¶ che libito fé licito in sua legge, ¶ per tòrre il biasmo in che era condotta. [...]»
      «[...] To sensual vices she was so abandoned, ¶ that lust she made licit in her law, ¶ to remove the blame to which she had been led. [...]»