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
It can change and create afresh even the constitution of the kingdom, and of parliaments themselves; as was done by the Act of Union and the several statutes for triennial and septennial elections.
From Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Reeves, Henry
Mr. Pultney said, he thought annual parliaments would be best, but preferred septennial to triennial and voted against the motion.
From The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1 by Cunningham, Peter
The dreadful disorders of frequent elections have also necessitated a septennial instead of a triennial duration.
From Thoughts on the Present Discontents, and Speeches, etc. by Morley, Henry
