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

All the leading features in Mr. Coleridge's life, during these two septennial periods, will no doubt, be detailed by others.

From Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey by Cottle, Joseph

While parliaments are septennial, the purchase of the sitting member or of the petitioner, makes but the difference of a day.

From Junius Unmasked or, Thomas Paine the author of the Letters of Junius and the Declaration of Independence by Moody, Joel

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