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 law of septennial elections tranquillized public life by suspending any legal or regular manifestation by the nation for seven years.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7 "Fox, George" to "France" by Various
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
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
