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Eastern cause arousing intense feeling (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

emotive

'arousing intense feeling' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'eastern cause' is the wordplay.
'eastern' becomes 'e'.
'cause' becomes 'motive' (**).
'e'+'motive'='EMOTIVE'

(Other definitions for emotive that I've seen before include "Moving - controversial" , "arousing passion" , "Affecting, moving" , "Arousing deep feeling" , "exciting" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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