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\pen-i-TREY-lee-uh\
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noun
1. the most private or secret things.
2. the innermost parts or recesses of a place or thing.
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But there are promptings of wisdom from the penetralia of human nature, which a people can hear though, the wisest of their practical Statesmen be deaf towards them.
-- William Wordsworth, "Concerning the Relations of Great Britain, Spain
and Portugal…as Affected by the Convention of Cintra," 1809
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Penetralia is formed from the Latin verb penetrāre meaning "to penetrate." It entred English in the mid-1600s.
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