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moodiness|ˈmuːdɪnɪs|
[OE. módiᵹnes, f. módiᵹ: see moody and -ness.]
†1. Pride, passion, anger. Obs.
c1000ælfric Hom. (Th.) I. 360 Ða heofenlican myrhðe beᵹytan, ðe ða heofenlican englas ðurh modiᵹnysse forluron. a1175Cott. Hom. 219 Hi wolde mid modinesse beon betere þonne he ȝesceapen were. c1200Ormin 4979 Þiss mahhte tredeþþ unnderrfot All modiȝnessess strenncþe. a1250Owl & Night. 1405 Þe gost..styhþ on heyh þur modynesse. c1275Sinners Beware 79 in O.E. Misc. 74 Prude and modynesse. 1530Palsgr. 246/1 Modynesse angre, attayne, ire. 1571Golding Calvin on Ps. lv. 16 This wish proceeded not of a trubbled or unadvysed head, or of moodynesse. 1626tr. Boccalini's New-found Politicke iii. ii. 179 Such was the naturall hatreed of the sheepe towards the Dogs, and the implacable moodinesse which they conceiued to be hurried vp and downe, that [etc.].
2. The state or condition of being moody, sullen, or abstracted.
1858Carlyle Fredk. Gt. (1872) I. i. iii. 29 Whiffs of jealousy..the product of accidental moodinesses in him. 1861J. Nichol in Mem. (1896) 75 His kindness was often tried by my moodiness and eccentricity. 1891S. Weyman Story F. Cludde x, In the general silence and moodiness I escaped notice. |