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
From this court we passed into the penetralia, a small court, in which not a soul was visible, and everywhere a deathlike stillness prevailed.
From The Life of Yakoob Beg Athalik Ghazi, and Badaulet; Ameer of Kashgar by Boulger, Demetrius Charles
"Pray, walk in, Mr. Sewell," she said, rising, and leading the way toward the penetralia of the best room.
From The Pearl of Orr's Island A Story of the Coast of Maine by Stowe, Harriet Beecher
He seemed to feel pleasure in the opportunity of baring to the view of a stranger the very penetralia 448of his beautiful abode.
