Dream about cry of encouragement abroad leading to resistance (9)
I believe the answer is:
tolerance
'to resistance' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'dream about cry of encouragement' is the wordplay.
'dream' becomes 'trance' (I've seen this in other clues).
'about' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'cry of encouragement' becomes 'ole' (Spanish word used to encourage someone).
'trance' enclosing 'ole' is 'TOLERANCE'.
'abroad leading' is the link.
I am not very happy about this link. Some or all of it may belong to another bit of the clue.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for tolerance that I've seen before include "Ability to endure something" , "Open-mindedness" , "example of permissiveness" , "Amount of play" , "Allowable variation (in size)" .)