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

"Come in here, and have a glass of something," said he, turning into a little cabaret, with whose penetralia he seemed not unfamiliar.

From A Day's Ride A Life's Romance by Lever, Charles James

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