mood-thought

English

Etymology

From a translation of Old English mōdġeþanc (“mind, thoughts”, literally “mood-thought”), equivalent to mood +‎ thought.

Noun

mood-thought (plural mood-thoughts)

1. (archaic or nonstandard) A thought relating to a specific mood or mindset; one's intent or mind. (Can we clean up⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)
   • 2003, Albert C. Baugh, Kemp Malone, The Literary History of England: Vol 1: The Middle Ages:

     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.

   • 2012, William Morris, Tale of Beowulf:

     At whiles unto love he letteth to turn The mood-thought of a man that Is mighty of kindred, […]

   • 2012, Irving Massey, The Neural Imagination: Aesthetic and Neuroscientific Approaches to the Arts:

     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, […]