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

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

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 Commentaries on the Laws of England Book the First by Blackstone, William, Sir

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