penetralia

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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

Richer surprises still thou hast: I know The ways that to thy penetralia lead, Where in black bogs the sundew's sticky bead Ensnares young insects, and that rosy lass, Sweet Arethusa, blushes in the grass.

From The Two Twilights by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)

He wanted to hear his own voice applauding the things that were leaping, singing, shouting in the penetralia of his being.

From The Cottage of Delight A Novel by Harben, Will N. (William Nathaniel)

Custom and pride and chivalry were the goddesses of the family penetralia, and debt maintained the vestal-fires.

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