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Anger that smoulders in church service (7)

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I believe the answer is:

incense

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'anger that smoulders' is the definition.
'incense' can be an answer for 'anger' (to incense is make angry). I am not certain of the rest of the definition.

'in church service' is the wordplay.
'church service' becomes 'cense' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'in'+'cense'='INCENSE'

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(Other definitions for incense that I've seen before include "To outrage" , "A High Church feature" , "Rouse to anger" , "can cause strong emotion" , "Enrage - fragrant material for burning" .)

I've seen this clue in the Financial Times, The Times and The Sun.
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