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Making one feel there's point to the cause (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

emotive

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'making one feel there's point' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this defines the answer.

'to the cause' is the wordplay.
'to the' becomes 'e' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'cause' becomes 'motive'.
'e'+'motive'='EMOTIVE'

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(Other definitions for emotive that I've seen before include "Generating feelings" , "Deeply felt" , "Affecting, moving" , "Contentious" , "arousing passion" .)

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