What does this sentence mean?
"How are you?"he said cordially, gripping my hand with a strength for which I should hardly have given credit.sorry, I missed a word.
"How are you?"he said cordially, gripping my hand with a strength for which I should hardly have given him credit.

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What does this sentence mean?
"How are you?"he said cordially, gripping my hand with a strength for which I should hardly have given credit.sorry, I missed a word.
"How are you?"he said cordially, gripping my hand with a strength for which I should hardly have given him credit.

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Basically, it means that his handshake was much stronger than you expected. He didn't look like the kind of person who was able to give a strong handshake.

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It means that his handshake was very weak or limp that he could barely give him credit for as a handshake.