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Definition of Tantalised
1. tantalise [v] - See also: tantalise
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tantalised
Literary usage of Tantalised
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Tobias Smollett by Tobias George Smollett (1905)
"CHAPTER THIRTEEN IN WHICH OUR KNIGHT IS tantalised WITH A TRANSIENT GLIMPSE OF
FELICITY. success of our adventurer, which we have particularised in the last ..."
2. Publications by Folklore Society (Great Britain) (1901)
"In the next Resort we have the tantalised ghosts. ... The tantalised ghosts are
here represented as emaciated human beings, who, when they endeavour to eat ..."
3. The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle: In which are Included Memoirs of a Lady by Tobias George Smollett, George Cruikshank (1831)
"By such shadowy, unsubstantial, vexatious behaviour, was I tantalised, and robbed
of my repose; and early next morning I got up, with a most sovereign ..."
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