septennial
Example Sentences
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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
He warmly supported the septennial bill in the same year.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" by Various
It can change and create afresh even the constitution of the kingdom and of parliaments themselves; as was done by the act of union, and the several statutes for triennial and septennial elections.
From Commentaries on the Laws of England Book the First by Sir William Blackstone
On this state of feeling the government introduced septennial parliaments.
From Lectures on Modern history by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron Acton
