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
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.
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
It can change and create afresh even the constitution of the kingdom, and of the parliaments themselves; as was done by the act of union and the several statutes for triennial and septennial elections.
From American Institutions and Their Influence by Tocqueville, Alexis de
