unfeudal

He, who had ever boasted of being an Elliot, and whose feelings, as to connection, were only too strict to suit the unfeudal tone of the present day.

Austen signals in Persuasion her awareness of that change by having the self-serving William Elliot boast (disingenuously, as we discover later) of his pride in his family connections, family title, and family estate, a pride "too strict to suit the unfeudal tone of the present day!" (150).

"Persuasion: The Unfeudal Tone of the Present Day." In New Casebooks: Mansfield Park and Persuasion.