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Tantilizing vs Tantalizing - What's the difference?

tantilizing | tantalizing |

As adjectives the difference between tantilizing and tantalizing

is that tantilizing is while tantalizing is teasing; tempting, but beyond reach.

As a verb tantalizing is

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tantilizing

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • *{{quote-book
    • , author = Graham Everitt , title = , year = 1893 , page = 175 , passage = ...in ardent pursuit of his shadow, which the tantilizing purchaser has let out for the occasion. }}

    tantalizing

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Teasing; tempting, but beyond reach.
  • * 1851 — , Ch. 133
  • *:...then it was that monomaniac Ahab, furious with this tantalizing vicinity of his foe, which placed him all alive and helpless in the very jaws he hated; frenzied with all this, he seized the long bone with his naked hands, and wildly strove to wrench it from its gripe.

    • Verb

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