Both Uses of
breadth
in
The Poisonwood Bible
- For the breadth of a river we stared without speaking.†
Chpt 3 *
- And only now, after working this same land for ten years, am I coming to understand the length and breadth of outsiders' failure to impose themselves on Africa.†
Chpt 6
Definitions:
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(1)
(breadth) the distance between two sides; or the range of variety -- especially a broad range of knowledge
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
More rarely, at one time a breadths described a piece of cloth of full width.