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 dreadful disorders of frequent elections have also necessitated a septennial instead of a triennial duration.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund

While parliaments are septennial, the purchase of the sitting member or of the petitioner, makes but the difference of a day.

From Junius Unmasked or, Thomas Paine the author of the Letters of Junius and the Declaration of Independence by Moody, Joel

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