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Septennial   Listen
adjective
Septennial  adj.  
1.
Lasting or continuing seven years; as, septennial parliaments.
2.
Happening or returning once in every seven years; as, septennial elections in England.





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"Septennial" Quotes from Famous Books



... cannot be invalidated by alleging that the State in which the experiment was made was at that crisis, and had been for a long time before, violently heated and distracted by the rage of party. Is it to be presumed, that at any future septennial epoch the same State will be free from parties? Is it to be presumed that any other State, at the same or any other given period, will be exempt from them? Such an event ought to be neither presumed nor desired; because an extinction of parties necessarily ...
— The Federalist Papers • Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison


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