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

Yet candour will own that to the same parliament every Englishman is deeply indebted: the septennial act, so vicious in its origin, has been sanctioned by time, experience, and the national consent.

From Memoirs of My Life and Writings by Gibbon, Edward

I except orators, of course, because they are things of ages, and not of septennial or triennial re-unions.

From Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 2 With His Letters and Journals by Moore, Thomas

I except orators, of course, because they are things of ages, and not of septennial or triennial reunions.

From The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 by Prothero, Rowland E. (Rowland Edmund), Baron Ernle