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
It was Ludovic,—Ludovic in her aunt's house,—Ludovic at her chamber door,—Ludovic there, within the very penetralia of their abode, while her aunt and Peter Steinmarc were sitting in the chamber below!
From Linda Tressel by Anthony Trollope
Here lay the penetralia of this domicile, this weak fortification against the world.
From The Broken Gate A Novel by Emerson Hough
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