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

The opportunity, however, never came, and the septennial period for the French presidency, established thus by monarchists in their own interest, was destined to pass into the permanent mechanism of a republican state.

From The Governments of Europe by Ogg, Frederic Austin

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

The law of septennial elections tranquillized public life by suspending any legal or regular manifestation by the nation for seven years.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7 "Fox, George" to "France" by Various