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Compliantly offering a word of prayer — competently, too (8)

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I believe the answer is:

amenably

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'compliantly' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are adverbs.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I can't see?

'a word of prayer competently too' is the wordplay.
'a word of prayer' becomes 'amen' (last word in a prayer).
'competently' becomes 'ably' (synonyms).
'too' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'amen'+'ably'='AMENABLY'

'offering' is the link.

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