woodness

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Noun

woodness (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Madness, fury.
   • 1567, Arthur Golding (translator), The XV Bookes of Ovid, entytuled Metamorphoses, Book 5,

     […] 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,

     […] 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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