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

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 Lang, Andrew

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

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