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Definition of "handsbreadth" [handsbreadth]

  • A small distance (noun)

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Use "handsbreadth" in a sentence
  • "The lama brought his thousand-wrinkled face once more a handsbreadth from the Englishman's."
  • "The lama brought his thousand-wrinkled face once more a handsbreadth from the Englishman’s."
  • "It is a hadith qudsi, which Muslim scholars translate as a divine saying revealed by God to the Prophet Muhammad: "And if [my servant] draws nearer to me by a handsbreadth; I draw nearer to him by an armslength; and if he draws nearer to me by an armslength, I draw nearer to him by a fathom; and if he comes to me walking, I come to him running.""