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Revolutionary embraces English church, showing forbearance (8)

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I believe the answer is:

lenience

'forbearance' is the definition.
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'revolutionary embraces english church' is the wordplay.
'revolutionary' becomes 'lenin' (I've seen this before**).
'embraces' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'english' becomes 'e' (abbreviation).
'church' becomes 'ce' (abbreviation for Church of England).
'lenin' going around 'e' is 'lenien'.
'lenien'+'ce'='LENIENCE'

'showing' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for lenience that I've seen before include "Quality of mercy in awarding punishment" , "Tolerance" , "indulgence" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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