septennial
Americanadjective
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occurring every seven years.
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of or for seven years.
noun
adjective
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occurring every seven years
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relating to or lasting seven years
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of septennial
1630–40; < Late Latin septenni ( s ) ( Latin septuennis ) seven years old ( sept ( em ) seven + -enn-, combining form of annus year + -is adj. suffix) + -al 1
Example Sentences
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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
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 Thomas Moore
It can change and create afresh even the constitution of the kingdom, and of parliaments themselves; as was done by the Act of Union and the several statutes for triennial and septennial elections.
From Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Henry Reeves
The law of septennial elections tranquillized public life by suspending any legal or regular manifestation by the nation for seven years.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7 "Fox, George" to "France" by Various
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