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

In 1716 this was repealed, and the present act passed, making them septennial.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 490, May 21, 1831 by Various

It is larger and more comprehensive than any individual representation of it; it may be said to have a "subliminal self," of which any septennial period sees but a meagre epitome.

From Life and Matter A Criticism of Professor Haeckel's 'Riddle of the Universe' by Lodge, Oliver, Sir

If the remedies are proper in triennial, they will not be less so in septennial elections.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund