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

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

Here, at length, after sufficient tantalization by its means, Marlboro' venturously intruded himself every day.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 by Various

The main secret of Bulwer then reveals itself, like that of flirtation, to reside in the art of tantalization.

From The Galaxy, April, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—April, 1877.—No. 4. by Various

There are few things more difficult to bear than what Scotch people so expressively term “tig-tire,” or excessive tantalization.

From As We Sweep Through The Deep by Stables, Gordon