All 3 Uses of
breadth
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- But, on my oath, I looked at her for three seconds, or five perhaps, with fearful hatred—that hate which is only a hair's-breadth from love, from the maddest love!†
Chpt 3 *
- Not a hair's-breadth: that lady had only to lift her little finger and he would have run after her to church, with his tongue out."†
Chpt 11
- They can contemplate such depths of belief and disbelief at the same moment that sometimes it really seems that they are within a hair's-breadth of being 'turned upside down,' as the actor Gorbunov says."†
Chpt 11
Definition:
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(breadth) the distance between two sides; or the range of variety -- especially a broad range of knowledge