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n. - The innermost parts.

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  • Cameronian leader, in a voice which seemed to issue from the very penetralia of his person.
  • The next afternoon we went down to Santa Maria degli Angeli in the plain, the very penetralia of the Pardon.
  • No one else here cares for the penetralia of the moment, or last mysteries: there have been too many rational years.
  • He wished to be what he called “safe” with all those whom he had admitted to the penetralia of his house and heart.
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