septennial
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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
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
In 1716 this was repealed, and the present act passed, making them septennial.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 490, May 21, 1831 by Various
The twelfth septennial period has always seemed to me as one of the natural boundaries of life.
From Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes by E. E. Brown
Tempora mutantur; for nothing now will do but septennial Parliaments.
From The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 10 Historical Writings by Jonathan Swift
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