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 first triennial parliament was in the year 1561; the first septennial one, in the year 1716.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 484, April 9, 1831 by Various
I except orators, of course, because they are things of ages, and not of septennial or triennial re-unions.
From Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 2 With His Letters and Journals by Moore, Thomas
In 1716 this was repealed, and the present act passed, making them septennial.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
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