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
The reign of George IV. began with resolute efforts of the Parliament not to lengthen, as in England under his grandfather, but to shorten its own commission, and to become septennial.
From Handbook of Home Rule Being articles on the Irish question by Godkin, Edwin Lawrence
On the question of the septennial renewal of the Chamber of Deputies, M. de Châteaubriand proposed the reduction of age necessary for electors; he failed in this object, but still supported the bill.
From Memoirs To Illustrate The History Of My Time Volume 1 by Cole, John William
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
