[f. next + -ATION.] The action of tantalizing or fact of being tantalized.
1654. Gayton, Pleas. Notes, IV. xv. 253. Poor Rosinant … whose paines and Tantalizations … were more irksome to the beast, than all his other out-ridings.
1821. Blackw. Mag., X. 729. The delay and tantalization is horrific.
1841. Poe, Three Sundays in a Week, Wks. (1899), II. 229. Like many excellent people, he seemed possessed with a spirit of tantalization, which might easily, at a casual glance, have been mistaken for malevolence.
