septennial
Example Sentences
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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 former was in favor of septennial, the latter of triennial parliaments.—Let.
From Junius Unmasked or, Thomas Paine the author of the Letters of Junius and the Declaration of Independence by Moody, Joel
I except orators, of course, because they are things of ages, and not of septennial or triennial re-unions.
From Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 2 With His Letters and Journals by Moore, Thomas
On this state of feeling the government introduced septennial parliaments.
From Lectures on Modern history by Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron
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