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Follow mother? Tim's ridiculous following of code of beliefs? (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

dogmatism

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'of code of beliefs?' is the definition.
The definition suggests a singular noun which matches the answer.

'follow mother? tim's ridiculous' is the wordplay.
'follow' becomes 'dog' (I've seen this before).
'mother?' becomes 'ma' (Ma is another word for mother or mum).
'ridiculous' is an anagram indicator.
'tims' with letters rearranged gives 'tism'.
'dog'+'ma'+'tism'='DOGMATISM'

'following' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for dogmatism that I've seen before include "Assertion of opinions as truths" , "Positive assertion of opinion" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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