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Fear of being wrongly partitioned (11)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

trepidation

'fear' is the definition.
(I know that trepidation is a type of apprehension)

'wrongly partitioned' is the wordplay.
'wrongly' indicates anagramming the letters (I've seen this in other clues).
'partitioned' anagrammed gives 'TREPIDATION'.

'of being' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for trepidation that I've seen before include "Fear or agitation about future events" , "Apprehension" , "Uneasy state" , "Feeling of anticipatory fear" , "Feeling of agitation and fear" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph and The Globe and Mail.
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