The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tentation \Ten*ta"tion\, n. [L. tentatio: cf. F. tentation. See Temptation.]
Trial; temptation. [Obs.]
--Sir T. Browne.(Mech.) A mode of adjusting or operating by repeated trials or experiments.
--Knight.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (obsolete form of temptation English) 2 (context obsolete English) A mode of adjusting or operate by repeated trials or experiments.
Wikipedia
Tentation® delblush is a new commercial apple variety (also known as Delblush), that was created in France in 1979 by Georges Delbard as the result of a crossing of Grifer (Blushing Golden) × Golden Delicious.
New Zealand is the sole southern hemisphere grower of Tentation, providing fruit domestically and to the northern hemisphere from June to September. In the late 1990s, a selected group of New Zealand fruit growers started planting Tentation trees. It is also grown in the United Kingdom.
Usage examples of "tentation".
Avec der materiaux si nombreux et si importants, il fallait bien du courage pour resister a la tentation de faire un systeme.
Let us suppose another Flaubert, who did not live at Rouen, whose life is not that related in his correspondence, who was not the friend of Maxime Ducamp or of Louise Colet, and the Education Sentimentale or the Tentation de Saint Antoine would not be in the least different from what they are now, nor should we see one line of change to be made.