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

That, she could imagine, would be a tantalization from which a sensitive woman might well wish to escape.

From The Precipice by Peattie, Elia Wilkinson

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

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

What barbarous tantalization to compel them to thirst in the midst of the waters of abundance!

From Statistical, Historical and Political Description of the Colony of New South Wales and its Dependent Settlements in Van Diemen's Land With a Particular Enumeration of the Advantages Which These Colonies Offer for Emigration, and Their Superiority in Many Respects Over Those Possessed by the United States of America by Wentworth, William Charles

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