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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Tan·ta·lism n.  A punishment like that of Tantalus; a teasing or tormenting by the hope or near approach of good which is not attainable; tantalization.
    Is not such a provision like tantalism to this people?   --Josiah Quincy.
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