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

And away through the noiseless glass door buzzed Josephine, on her way to the basement, followed by Isabella on her way to the inner penetralia of the second floor; while Col.

From Shoulder-Straps A Novel of New York and the Army, 1862 by Morford, Henry

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