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

All the leading features in Mr. Coleridge's life, during these two septennial periods, will no doubt, be detailed by others.

From Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey by Cottle, Joseph

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

Yet candour will own that to the same parliament every Englishman is deeply indebted: the septennial act, so vicious in its origin, has been sanctioned by time, experience, and the national consent.

From Memoirs of My Life and Writings by Gibbon, Edward