mood

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I should look upon your torments, my Lord, with other eyes than the Princess does; Heaven or our mood is the reason why we judge differently about everything.

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  1. noun A state of mind or emotion.
  2. noun A pervading impression of an observer: the somber mood of the painting.
  3. noun An incidence of sulking or angry behavior.
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  • But the mood is also conveyed by the music itself, careful and detailed. —  PopMatters
  • "Everything about the mood is as bleak and as dark as we've ever seen," said Mr. Hart. —  WSJ.com: What's News US
  • But once they started playing in earnest, the mood was as instantly set as it always is. —  Merry Swankster
  • On the ride home with her four friends the mood was a bit somber I think she even called it sobering. —  The Minority Report -
  • I should look upon your torments, my Lord, with other eyes than the Princess does; Heaven or our mood is the reason why we judge differently about everything. —  Don Garcia of Navarre
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mood:   moods
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Etymologies (5)

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  1. Middle English mod, from Old English mōd, disposition; see mē-1 in Indo-European roots.
  2. Alteration of mode.

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  1. from Middle English mood, mode, mod, from Anglo-Saxon mōd, mind. heart, soul, spirit, courage, pride, haughtiness, magnificence, zeal, = Old Saxon mōd, muod = OFries. mōd = Dutch moed = Middle Low German mōt, moit, mout, mūt, Low German mōt, mūd, mind, heart, courage, = Old High German muot, Middle High German muot, sense, spirit, German mut, muth, courage, = Icelandic mōdhr, wrath, grief, moodiness. = Swedish Danish mod, courage, = Goth, mōds, wrath; orig. apparently any strong or excited state of feeling; perhaps, with formative -d, from a root appearing in Greek μαίεσθαι, endeavor, seek, whence prob. μοῦσα, muse: see Muse.
  2. A later form of mode, which is preferable in both the grammatical and logical uses, though not usual in the latter: see mode.
  3. A variant of mud, or of mother.
 

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