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Discharge from English mother country (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

emanation

'discharge' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'english mother country' is the wordplay.
'english' becomes 'e' (abbreviation).
'mother' becomes 'ma' (ma is a kind of mother).
'country' becomes 'nation' ('nation' can be a synonym of 'country').
'e'+'ma'+'nation'='EMANATION'

'from' is the link.

(Other definitions for emanation that I've seen before include "Something issuing from a source" , "discharge" , "Something flowing out from a source" , "Issue" , "produce radioactive gas" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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