单词 | tantalization |
释义 | tantalizationn. The action of tantalizing or fact of being tantalized. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > longing or yearning > [noun] ondeeOE yearningeOE longingOE forlonginga1250 mourningc1300 yering13.. eye-seke?c1500 panting1580 greening1584 smackeringa1586 brame1590 languora1599 earning1603 lingering1608 yawning1635 tantalizing1640 slavering1642 longingness1651 tantalization1654 twittering1668 hankering1678 honing1725 lech1796 yearna1797 languishment1817 yearningness1839 hanker1881 tantalizingness1889 yen1906 the mind > will > motivation > attraction, allurement, or enticement > [noun] > tantalization Tantalisma1627 tantalization1654 1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iv. xv. 253 Poor Rosinant..whose paines and Tantalizations..were more irksome to the beast, than all his other out-ridings. 1821 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 10 729 The delay and tantalization is horrific. 1849 C. Brontë Shirley I. ix. 225 Rose had no idea of tantalization, or she would have held him a while in doubt. 1931 H. Walpole Judith Paris iv. 678 From that misery of tantalization he had died. 1983 Listener 28 July 32/3 The human frame is just not conditioned to support such stupendous tantalisation. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < |
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