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
My legation button carried me through the guard, and I found an excellent place under a cardinal's wing, in the penetralia within the railing of the altar.
From Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe by N. Parker Willis
From this court we passed into the penetralia, a small court, in which not a soul was visible, and everywhere a deathlike stillness prevailed.
From The Life of Yakoob Beg Athalik Ghazi, and Badaulet; Ameer of Kashgar by Demetrius Charles Boulger
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 Andrew Lang
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