septennial

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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 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

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

On this state of feeling the government introduced septennial parliaments.

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

It can change and create afresh even the constitution of the kingdom, and of the parliaments themselves; as was done by the act of union and the several statutes for triennial and septennial elections.

From American Institutions and Their Influence by Tocqueville, Alexis de