[f. as prec. + -ITY. Cf. Fr. fiscalité.] Exclusive regard to fiscal considerations.
1825. Bentham, Ration. Rew., 301. When we shall have ceased to consider colonies with the greedy eyes of fiscality, the greater number of these inconveniences will cease of themselves.
1831. T. L. Peacock, Crotchet Castle, ix. 169–70. They were not, and could not be, subjected to that powerful pressure of all the other classes of society, combined by gunpowder, steam, and fiscality, which has brought them to that dismal degradation in which we see them now.
1887. J. C. Morison, Service of Man, 35. A grinding fiscality which, at last, exterminated wealth.
