yesterday my dearest friend in the village, now living in brive, paid us a surprise visit; he is eighty-eight and in frail health, but absolutely wanted to see me;
i was deeply touched, but when he left i was also struck by and saddened by the thought that maybe this was to be our last meeting; i sincerely hope an wish that i am wrong;
oddly the last time i had this feeling was watching my beloved black cat sruff leaye the garden - never to return; he also gave what could only be described as a farewell look;
i know there is a word for this situation, but try as i might i cannot bring it to mind either in french or english;
any suggestions wil be appreciated as it is driving me mad!
presentiment sounds very close, although it is not the one that i seem to recall; it has the sadness element missing from premonition;
thanks for that;
Isnāt it interesting how we each define wordsā¦premonition for me is definitely something horrifically bad like a car crash, occurs a lot in ghost stories. And presentiment is a softer, sadder word which fits a possible death better as that is sad, but not necessarily horrific.
interesting; i had a colleague in australia (i even remember his name - john smallman, who told me one day he had had a premonition he would win the lottery - and he did; i think the āsentimentā part f āpresentimentā influences me;
i just checked the oxford word finder and the word i was looking for popped up _ āforebodingā- which also translates into both premonition and presentiment my wife advises;
yes - where theft is rewarded eh , if a word is useful- pinch it; where french lost so much of its way by its adherence to āpurityā; i once started a book called 'you already know frenchāand stopped after five thousand originally french words absorbed into english; the empire must have furnished at least as many again;
