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

On this state of feeling the government introduced septennial parliaments.

From Lectures on Modern history by Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron

The reign of George IV. began with resolute efforts of the Parliament not to lengthen, as in England under his grandfather, but to shorten its own commission, and to become septennial.

From Handbook of Home Rule Being articles on the Irish question by Godkin, Edwin Lawrence

The Parliament of England, with respect to America, was not septennial but perpetual.

From A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal, on the Affairs of North America, in Which the Mistakes in the Abbe's Account of the Revolution of America Are Corrected and Cleared Up by Paine, Thomas