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.

Question

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.

Answer

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.

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