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

An arrased doorway right leads thro a passage to the street gate, and one left to the penetralia of the house, from which Marina enters deeply troubled.

From Porzia by Rice, Cale Young

John Ayliffe had a strong inclination to knock him down, but he restrained himself, and at length a large plated iron door admitted the two gentlemen into the penetralia of the temple.

From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 by Various