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

The first triennial parliament was in the year 1561; the first septennial one, in the year 1716.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 484, April 9, 1831 by Various

He hated dissenters and stockjobbers, the excise and the army, septennial parliaments, and continental connections.

From Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 3 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

If the remedies are proper in triennial, they will not be less so in septennial elections.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund