mood-thought
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.41 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Now [we] shall praise the heaven-realm's Keeper, God's might and his mood-thought, the work of the glory-Father, as he of each wonder, the eternal Lord, the beginning ordained."
- "At whiles unto love he letteth to turn The mood-thought of a man that Is mighty of kindred, […]"
- "A postscript: Lying in bed, half asleep, waiting to get up, I felt different moods, groups of thoughts, shifting through my mind— perhaps every two or three minutes, though I do not really know — like packets, discrete quanta of mood-thoughts."
- "2014, Beowulf He often permitteth the mood-thought of man of The illustrious lineage to lean to possessions, Allows him earthly delights at his manor, A high-burg of heroes to hold in his keeping, Maketh portions of earth-folk hear him, […]"
Etymology
From a translation of Old English mōdġeþanc (“mind, thoughts”, literally “mood-thought”), equivalent to mood + thought.