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

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 Boulger, Demetrius Charles

He wanted to hear his own voice applauding the things that were leaping, singing, shouting in the penetralia of his being.

From The Cottage of Delight A Novel by Harben, Will N. (William Nathaniel)