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

The Parliament of England, with respect to America, was not septennial but perpetual.

From A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal, on the Affairs of North America, in Which the Mistakes in the Abbe's Account of the Revolution of America Are Corrected and Cleared Up by Paine, Thomas

If the remedies are proper in triennial, they will not be less so in septennial elections.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund