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

Ille procul trepido lumine signat humum: It gravis hic, et in alta ferox penetralia tendit.

From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) by Crashaw, Richard

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)

This name was given to a certain class of household deities, which were worshipped by the Romans in the penetralia, or innermost part of their dwellings.

From The Student's Mythology A Compendium of Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian, Hindoo, Chinese, Thibetian, Scandinavian, Celtic, Aztec, and Peruvian Mythologies by White, Catherine Ann