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

Mr. Pultney said, he thought annual parliaments would be best, but preferred septennial to triennial and voted against the motion.

From The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1 by Cunningham, Peter

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 this state of feeling the government introduced septennial parliaments.

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