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Feeling as pride is shattered? (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

despair

'feeling' is the definition.
(despair is a kind of feeling)

'as pride is shattered?' is the wordplay.
'is shattered?' indicates anagramming the letters.
'as'+'pride'='aspride'
'aspride' with letters rearranged gives 'DESPAIR'.

(Other definitions for despair that I've seen before include "Lose heart" , "Abandon hope" , "Praised (anag) - lose hope" , "Complete absence of hope" , "sort of counsel?" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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