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English more authoritarian about a person from the Orient (9)

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I believe the answer is:

easterner

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'person from the orient' is the definition.
'easterner' can be an answer for 'person' (easterner is a kind of person). I'm unsure of the 'from the orient' bit.

'english more authoritarian about a' is the wordplay.
'english' becomes 'E' (abbreviation).
'more authoritarian' becomes 'sterner' (authoritarian can mean strict).
'about' says to put letters next to each other.
'sterner' put after 'a' is 'asterner'.
'e'+'asterner'='EASTERNER'

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(Other definitions for easterner that I've seen before include "Opposite of westerner" , "Asian" , "New Englander, for instance" , "New Yorker perhaps" , "one from Boston, say" .)

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