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tantalization

[tan-tuhl-ahyz-ay-shuhn] / ˌtæn təl aɪzˈeɪ ʃən /


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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, have been mistaken for malevolence.

From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 3 by Poe, Edgar Allan

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

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

It is not that Nature can become ever less lovely to your sight; but that the tantalization of her dangerous beauty, which you may enjoy only at a safe distance, exasperates at last.

From Two Years in the French West Indies by Hearn, Lafcadio

Wonderment as to the next move partook less of deep anxiety than of the tantalization of guessing at a riddle with the answer always just eluding you.

From The Long Roll by Johnston, Mary