Goodness of tie-up in Puducherry’s boundaries (5)
I believe the answer is:
piety
'goodness' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both human attributes as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I can't see?
'tie-up in puducherry's boundaries' is the wordplay.
'up' indicates anagramming the letters.
'in' indicates putting letters inside.
'boundaries' says to hollow out the word (remove centre letters) (only the edge or boundary letters remain).
'puducherry' with its centre removed is 'py'.
'tie' anagrammed gives 'iet'.
'iet' going within 'py' is 'PIETY'.
'of' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for piety that I've seen before include "Religious feeling" , "Dutiful devotion" , "Quality of being religious" , "paying proper duty" , "religious behaviour" .)