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

In the penetralia of the parlour which he left I saw a group of floury comrades, the prominent features of the gathering being depression and bagatelle.

From Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis by Davies, Charles Maurice

John Ayliffe had a strong inclination to knock him down, but he restrained himself, and at length a large plated iron door admitted the two gentlemen into the penetralia of the temple.

From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 by Various

"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