A good priest in North Carolina having shining virtue? (7)

I believe the answer is:

angelic

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'having shining virtue?' is the definition.
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'a good priest in north carolina' is the wordplay.
'good' becomes 'g' (abbreviation).
'priest' becomes 'eli' (biblical figure).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'north carolina' becomes 'NC' (abbreviation).
'g'+'eli'='geli'
'geli' inserted into 'nc' is 'ngelic'.
'a'+'ngelic'='ANGELIC'

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(Other definitions for angelic that I've seen before include "Very well behaved" , "I glance (anag.)" , "Heavenly - entrancing" , "The host's" , "sweet-natured too" .)

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