tantalization

American  

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

noun

1. the act of tantalizing or an instance of being tantalized.

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tantalization

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

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 Mary Johnston

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

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

Their honors were too short-lived, and too circumscribed, to be much more than a lively tantalization, to be remembered with disgust by those who had worn them.

From The Colored Regulars in the United States Army by T. G. (Theophilus Gould) Steward

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

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