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Loudly discussing Eucharist ‘as a body’ (2,5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

en masse

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'as a body' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)

'loudly discussing eucharist' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'eucharist' could be 'mass' (I've seen this before) and 'mass' is present in the answer.
The remaining letters 'ene' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

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(Other definitions for en masse that I've seen before include "Many as one" , "in concert" , "All together as a group" , "Sees man (anag.)" , "as a bunch" .)

I've seen this clue in The Everyman puzzle in The Observer.
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