• Woodness

    Origin

    Old English wodnes, corresponding to wood + -ness.

    Full definition of woodness

    Noun

    woodness

    (uncountable)
    1. (obsolete) Madness, fury.
      • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book I.15:in that woodenes that lucas was in, he slewe ii bachelers & horsed hem ageyn ....
      • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.11:with fell woodnes he effierced was,
        And wilfully him throwing on the gras
        Did beat and bounse his head and brest ful sore ….
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