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

In 1716 this was repealed, and the present act passed, making them septennial.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

I except orators, of course, because they are things of ages, and not of septennial or triennial reunions.

From The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 by Prothero, Rowland E. (Rowland Edmund), Baron Ernle

In 1755, the beginning of another septennial period, the six-day service was widely extended.

From The History of the Post Office From Its Establishment Down to 1836 by Joyce, Herbert