septennial

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It could be, of course, that advancing years and their own septennial celebrity have made the subjects unwilling to spill their guts to their show-biz Mr. Chips.

From Time Magazine Archive

And then the fifth septennial Assembly of the World Council of Churches will settle down to the issues that trouble the non-Catholic wing of the ecumenical movement.

From Time Magazine Archive

The dreadful disorders of frequent elections have also necessitated a septennial instead of a triennial duration.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund

Mr. Pultney said, he thought annual parliaments would be best, but preferred septennial to triennial and voted against the motion.

From The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1 by Cunningham, Peter

Tempora mutantur; for nothing now will do but septennial Parliaments.

From The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 10 Historical Writings by Swift, Jonathan