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Handclasp   /hˈændklˌæsp/   Listen
Handclasp

noun
1.
Grasping and shaking a person's hand (as to acknowledge an introduction or to agree on a contract).  Synonyms: handshake, handshaking, shake.






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"Handclasp" Quotes from Famous Books



... honest handclasp, if you please; for no woman can have ever lived who had a truer friend," and Wogan, looking into her frank eyes, was not, after all, nearly so well pleased with the untruth he had told her. She was an uncomfortable woman to go about with shifts and contrivances. Her open ...
— Clementina • A.E.W. Mason

... of the soul. In patient and hopeful sympathy, in friendship that is personal and not professional, knowing that the door of the heart is opened only from within, the true minister, like his Master, waits. He knows, too, that a few words suffice in the great decisions of life, and that the handclasp of manly love speaks volumes. The prime qualification is a friendship that invites and respects confidence and a ...
— The Minister and the Boy • Allan Hoben

... at Mary Louise, as if to implore her to forgive any seeming lack of hospitality and accept her coldly worded invitation. No one could look at Mary Louise without gaining confidence and the friendly smile and warm handclasp made Alora feel instantly that here was a girl who would prove congenial under any circumstances. Really, it would not take them long to become friends, and poor Alora ...
— Mary Louise Solves a Mystery • L. Frank Baum

... wished the unhappy difference forgot. So from a corner of the hillside flake I watched lynx-eyed; but I could detect nothing amiss—no hint of ill-feeling or reserve: only frank gladness in smile and glance and handclasp. And being well content with this, I went back to the wharf to lend Tom Tot a hand with the landing of the winter supplies, the medical stores, the outfit for the projected sloop: all of which the doctor had brought with him ...
— Doctor Luke of the Labrador • Norman Duncan



Words linked to "Handclasp" :   acknowledgement, acknowledgment, contract, handshake



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