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

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

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

From Thoughts on the Present Discontents, and Speeches, etc. by Morley, Henry