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Endure lampoonery, losing heart in the end (6)

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I believe the answer is:

lastly

'in the end' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'endure lampoonery losing heart' is the wordplay.
'endure' becomes 'last' ('last' can be a synonym of 'endure'**).
'losing heart' means to remove the middle letters.
'lampoonery' with its middle removed is 'ly'.
'last'+'ly'='LASTLY'

(Other definitions for lastly that I've seen before include "In the end" , "In conclusion" , "Finally, to conclude with" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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