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
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
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 Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut
The sentiment, at the same time, sounds oddly, as it issues from the penetralia of a multitudinous club.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 by Various
