### Clue: Feel anger over English priest's claim (9)
### Answer: REPRESENT 
 ### Explanation: Definition: claim
  RESENT(to feel anger against someone/about something) **containing**(over, but no reversal this time) [E($$E$$nglish) + PR(abbrev. for $$pr$$iest)]. 
Answer: As in "to represent/claim the situation as/is not hopeless".