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
Yet at such an hour it will now be necessary to enter its penetralia.
From Auriol or, The Elixir of Life by Ainsworth, W. Harrison
Granny Marrable was looking for something, in the penetralia of the model.
From When Ghost Meets Ghost by De Morgan, William Frend
He seemed to feel pleasure in the opportunity of baring to the view of a stranger the very penetralia 448of his beautiful abode.
