penetralia

Example Sentences

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Like Kahn’s buildings, too, Lesser’s book has its penetralia, core elements to which one is only gradually led.

From New York Times • Mar. 7, 2017

The book is littered with show-off phrases such as "alembicated piety" and "the penetralia of one's self-regard."

From Time Magazine Archive

The King does not live in inaccessible penetralia, and the man of the people when he comes across the man to whom he invariably refers as sua maest� will speak his mind to him.

From Rome by Malleson, Hope

The sum of his words is that this place is the penetralia of a band called the Order of the Falcon, with a man known as the Falcon at its head.

From Caravans By Night A Romance of India by Hervey, Harry

This was the penetralia, which, I suppose, from the first syllable, was got up especially for authors.

From Phemie Frost's Experiences by Stephens, Ann S. (Ann Sophia)