Definition of "woodness"

[…] This sodaine chaunge from feasting vnto frayMight well be likened to the Sea: whych standing at a stayThe 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 […]

[…] with fell woodnes he effierced was,And wilfully him throwing on the grasDid 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, page 567