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

Vadit, io, per aperta sui penetralia coeli: It coelo, et coelum fundit ab ore novum.

From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) by Crashaw, Richard

That ended it, and he was no nearer the penetralia of car Naught-fifty than before.

From A Romance in Transit by Lynde, Francis

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