woodness

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English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English woodnesse, wodnesse, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English wōdnes, corresponding to wood (“mad, insane”) +‎ -ness.

Noun

woodness (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) Madness, fury.
    • 1567, Arthur Golding (translator), The XV Bookes of P. Ouidius Naso, entytuled Metamorphosis, Book 5,[1]
      […] 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.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, London: William Ponsonbie, Book 3, Canto 11, p. 567,[2]
      […] 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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