Something that checks the correctness of a previous check.
Oppose or check by a counteraction.
1 The 80th captured the gun; and the enemy, dismayed by this countercheck , did not venture to press on further.
2 Here his high idea of prerogative and of gubernatorial dignity met with a grievous countercheck from the dawning spirit of independence.
3 Every check and countercheck is used, which slowness of proceeding, or a repetition of it in other stages and under different forms, can effect.
4 "This is in the nature of a countercheck to the memorial?" said I.
5 Between these checks and counterchecks of European nations, the commerce of the United States was in peril of being swept entirely from the ocean.
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