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Definition of Tantalized
1. tantalize [v] - See also: tantalize
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tantalized
Literary usage of Tantalized
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1845)
"He returned at night to a bleak, miserable hut, where a scanty fire rather
tantalized him with its glimmering than warmed him with its heat. ..."
2. The Works of Tobias Smollett by Tobias George Smollett, William Ernest Henley (1900)
"CHAPTER XIII In which the Knight is tantalized with a transient Glimpse of Felicity
The success of our adventurer, which we have particularised in the last ..."
3. The Private Journal of Aaron Burr, During His Residence of Four Years in by Aaron Burr (1838)
"Again I have been tantalized with something about X. Pray, pray do not let this
happen again. Where did you meet with any of my grandmother's connexions ? ..."
4. The Private Journal of Aaron Burr, During His Residence of Four Years in by Aaron Burr (1838)
"Again I have been tantalized with something about X. Pray, pray do not let this
happen again. Where did you meet with any of my grandmother's connexions ? ..."
5. Sketches of Bermuda, Or Somers' Islands by Richard Cotter, T. Y. Cotter (1828)
"... (about the fifth day;) they came in such a " questionable shape" that the
stranger fled: in this way were they tantalized for nearly a fortnight, ..."
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