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

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

Even the same language is used in making the same application to the septennial act, which might as well have empowered the members of parliament to sit for life.

From Junius Unmasked or, Thomas Paine the author of the Letters of Junius and the Declaration of Independence by Moody, Joel