Woodness

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Madness, fury. obsolete, uncountable

    "[…] This sodaine chaunge from feasting vnto fray Might well be likened to the Sea: whych standing at a stay The woodnesse of the windes makes rough by raising of the waue."

Etymology

From Middle English woodnesse, wodnesse, from Old English wōdnes, corresponding to wood (“mad, insane”) + -ness.

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