Caring tendency to hide love rejected by nurse (10)
I believe the answer is:
benevolent
'caring' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'tendency to hide love rejected by nurse' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
an anagram of 'love' is 'evol' which is present in the answer.
'nurse' could be 'en' (abbreviation for enrolled nurse) and 'en' is present in the answer.
'tendency' could be 'bent' (bent is a kind of tendency) and 'bent' is found in the leftover letters.
No letters remain.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for benevolent that I've seen before include "Showing kindness" , "Well disposed" , "Well meaning, kindly" , "Charitable" , "Kind" .)