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 twelfth septennial period has always seemed to me as one of the natural boundaries of life.

From Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes by Brown, E. E.

On this state of feeling the government introduced septennial parliaments.

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

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