annualityn.

1792 J. White tr. G.-H. de R. de Mirabeau Speeches I. 161 Would it not yet be sufficient to glance our eyes upon the formidable extent of our duties, in order to determine us to declare the annuality [Fr. annualité] [Footnote I cannot find this word in Johnson's Dictionary; nevertheless, I adopt it for want of a better] of the National Assembly.

1817 J. Bentham Plan Parl. Reform Introd. 285 Trienniality inadequate;—Annuality necessary... The conflict is between annuality of Election and trienniality.

1907 Treasury Dec. 229/1 The quality of annuality is found to belong almost universally to all religious observances.

2005 Independent (Nexis) 15 Dec. (Comment section) 35 Today we are going to be looking at annuality, the phenomenon whereby certain events occur only once a year.

1897 Parl. Deb. 4th Ser. 46 748 The ‘annuality’ of our accounts, which secured that each year's revenue and expenditure should be complete in themselves, and that any surplus should go to the reduction of the National debt.

1912 Let. in Times 11 Apr. 12/3 The financial system of the country has been hitherto one of the strictest annuality... Our accounts are strictly cash accounts, strictly beginning and ending with the year, without any balances brought forward on April 1 or carried forward on the next succeeding March 31.

1950 Erskine May's Law of Parl. (ed. 15) xxiii. 655 According to the ‘principle of annuality’, which is..strictly enforced, every financial year is treated as a closed period separate from every other financial year.

2016 M. Di Francesco & J. Alford Balancing Control & Flexibility in Public Budgeting iv. 37 Annuality creates demands on a budget holder simultaneously to avoid overspending (at the risk of illegality) and underspending (at the risk of losing unused funding from a budget).