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

The sentiment, at the same time, sounds oddly, as it issues from the penetralia of a multitudinous club.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 by Various

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

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