a. Obs. Forms: α. 1 wéamód, 2–3 wemod, 3 weamod, 4 waymot. β. 3 wamed, wemed. [OE. wéamód, f. wéa affliction, trouble, malice + -mód: see MOOD sb. The β-forms may represent an OE. variant *wéaméde.] Passionate, angry.
α. c. 897. K. Ælfred, Gregory’s Past. C., xl. 289. Onʓean ðæt sint to manianne ða weamodian & ða grambæran [L. iracundi].
c. 1175. Lamb. Hom., 5. Ne beo þu þereuore prud ne wilde ne sterc ne wemod ne ouer modi.
a. 1225. Ancr. R., 118. Pellican is … so weamod & so wreðful þet hit sleað ofte uor grome his owune briddes…. þis pellican is þe weamode ancre.
c. 1290. S. Eng. Leg., St. George, 690. He is … Proud and wemod, and drinkare: and in wrathþe al-mest wod.
13[?]. E. E. Allit. P., C. 492. Why art þou so waymot wyȝe for so lyttel?
β. c. 1205. Lay., 6368. Of alle þingen heo weore god ȝif heo neore to wamed. A-nan se he wes wrað wid eni mon i þan stude le hine wolde slæn.
13[?]. R. Glouc. (Rolls), App. H 25. A knyȝt he was swiþe god, ac to wemed of ynou.
