Septennial Definition

sĕp-tĕnē-əl
adjective
Happening every seven years.
Webster's New World
Lasting seven years.
Webster's New World
noun
An event that occurs every seven years.
American Heritage

Origin of Septennial

  • From Late Latin septennium period of seven years from Latin septennis of seven years septem seven septm̥ in Indo-European roots annus year at- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Late Latin septennium (“a period of seven years").

    From Wiktionary

Septennial Sentence Examples

  • Also the system of Government and opposition and septennial elections almost ensured instability unless the Government had a huge majority.

  • Hasselt is best known for its great septennial fete held on the day of Assumption, August 15th.

  • This new and obedient legislature, to which only nineteen liberals were returned, made itself into a septennial parliament, thus providing time, it was thought, to restore some part of the ancien regime.

  • But they were reluctant to face an immediate dissolution, and the Septennial Act was passed (1716) to extend to seven.

  • He was a friend of the Whig leaders Stanhope and Sunderland, took a share in defeating the Jacobite conspiracy of Bolingbroke on the death of Queen Anne, and supported the passing of the Septennial Act.

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