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

‘I have faced tantalization these twenty years with a temper as mild as milk!’ said Japheth; ‘but such things as this don’t come short of devilry!’

From Wessex Tales by Hardy, Thomas

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 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 Sidney, Samuel

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