Cryptic crossword clue
Fear of being wrongly partitioned 11

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 11 letter word TREPIDATION

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What does TREPIDATION mean?

TREPIDATION noun
  1. A fearful state; a state of concern or hesitation.
  2. An involuntary trembling, sometimes an effect of paralysis, but usually caused by terror or fear; quaking; quivering.
  3. A libration of the starry sphere in the Ptolemaic system; a motion ascribed to the firmament, to account for certain small changes in the position of the ecliptic and of the stars.

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