Definition of "woodness" [wood•ness]

• Madness, fury. (noun)

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• "He sat up in the bed and rubbed his eyes, and his face was come to its wholesome colour, and his eyes looked out quietly and calmly as he looked about the cave and saw the wood-wife standing by him; and he spake in a voice which was somewhat weak, but wherein was no passion of rage or woodness: Where am I then? and who art thou, dame?"
• "And as he came by a river, in his woodness he would have made his horse to have leapt over; and the horse failed footing and fell in the river, wherefore"
• "O Jesu, mercy, said Sir Launcelot; if this be sooth, how many there be that know of my woodness!"