Fighting in church after bad name over nothing (8)
I believe the answer is:
violence
'fighting' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both acts as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps there's an association between them I don't understand?
'church after bad name over nothing' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'church' could be 'ce' (abbreviation for Church of England) and 'ce' is located in the answer.
'name' could be 'viole' and 'viole' is present in the answer.
A single letter 'n' remains which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
'in' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for violence that I've seen before include "Harmful physical force" , "Force, injury" , "Aggro" , "Passion" , "Act of aggression, physical force" .)