OXFORD 9000
📚 prep_phrase • entry_id 56500

in check

Meanings (ES + gloss)
a raya • en jaque • so control
Under restraint or control.
It was a sudden meeting, and one in which rapture was kept well in check by pain.
The old feelings, so religiously held in check, were stimulated to rebelliousness, though they did not show themselves in any direct manner as yet.
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