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
Custom and pride and chivalry were the goddesses of the family penetralia, and debt maintained the vestal-fires.
From Caravans By Night A Romance of India by Hervey, Harry
The sum of his words is that this place is the penetralia of a band called the Order of the Falcon, with a man known as the Falcon at its head.
From Caravans By Night A Romance of India by Hervey, Harry
He seemed to feel pleasure in the opportunity of baring to the view of a stranger the very penetralia 448of his beautiful abode.
