tantalization

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Colleges with no V12 windfall, with or without an A-12 tantalization, had the choice of supporting teams of 4-Fs and 17-year-olds or giving up.

From Time Magazine Archive

This she knew; and this tantalization of her fate she keenly felt.

From Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume II by Fuller, Margaret

Like many excellent people, he seemed possessed with a spirit of tantalization, which might easily, at a casual glance, be mistaken for malevolence.

From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6 by Sylvester, Charles Herbert

‘I have faced tantalization these twenty years with a temper as mild as milk!’ said Japheth; ‘but such things as this don’t come short of devilry!’

From Wessex Tales by Hardy, Thomas

To live for a time among them would be a delight; to glance at them for a moment was tantalization.

From An American Girl Abroad by Trafton, Adeline