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Compulsion from person in service rising to stop sacrifice (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

obligation

'compulsion' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'person in service rising to stop sacrifice' is the wordplay.
'person in service' becomes 'GI' (informal term for a US soldier).
'rising' says the letters should be written backwards (going up in a down clue).
'to stop' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'sacrifice' becomes 'oblation' (oblation is a sacrifice or offering to a god).
'gi' reversed gives 'ig'.
'ig' put inside 'oblation' is 'OBLIGATION'.

'from' is the link.

(Another definition for obligation that I've seen is " Duty".)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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