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

He dropped his own name, assumed the pose of a grand dame familiar with the inner penetralia and sacred secrets of the exclusive circle of the American Colony in Paris.

From Through Our Unknown Southwest by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)

But these new mysteries and trumpery cults of the decayed civilisation were things very different from the worship of Dionysus Zagreus and his established sacrifices of oxen in the secret penetralia of Delphi.***

From Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Lang, Andrew

The same "sesame" opened to him the coulisse of the Opera and the penetralia of the Fran�ais.

From Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume II by Lever, Charles James