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 went on to draw a picture of what might come to pass under an unscrupulous minister, sustained by a corrupted septennial Parliament.

From A History of the Four Georges, Volume II by McCarthy, Justin

On this state of feeling the government introduced septennial parliaments.

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

The twelfth septennial period has always seemed to me as one of the natural boundaries of life.

From Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes by Brown, E. E.