tantalization
Americannoun
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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 Mr. Dudley was an early victim of the patent laws, which, to this day, have proved to be for the benefit of lawyers and officials, and the tantalization of true inventors and discoverers.
From Rides on Railways by Samuel Sidney
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 Lafcadio Hearn
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
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 Charles Herbert Sylvester
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