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woodness

woodness noun: madness, fury.

Noun

woodness (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) Madness, fury.
    • […] 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.1567, Ovid, “The Fyft Booke”, in Arthur Golding, transl., The XV. Bookes of P. Ouidius Naso, Entytuled Metamorphosis, […], London: […] Willyam Seres […], →OCLC
    • […] with fell woodnes he effierced was,
      And wilfully him throwing on the gras
      Did beat and bounse his head and brest ful sore […].1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 567

woodness meaning in Bengali

woodness in Bengali

উন্মাদনা, প্রচণ্ড রাগ

Origin of woodness

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

Questions about woodness

What does woodness mean?
Woodness means madness, fury.
What is woodness in Bengali?
Woodness in Bengali is উন্মাদনা, প্রচণ্ড রাগ. See Woodness meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is woodness?
Woodness is a noun.

Words near woodness in the dictionary

  1. Woodmont
  2. woodmote
  3. woodmotes
  4. woodmouse
  5. Woodnesborough
  6. woodness
  7. woodnote
  8. woodnotes
  9. Woodnutt
  10. woodnymph
  11. woodnymphs

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