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Judge and godly type meeting (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

tryst

'meeting' is the definition.
(tryst is a kind of meeting)

'judge and godly type' is the wordplay.
'judge' becomes 'try' (trying is a kind of judging**).
'and' says to put letters next to each other.
'godly type' becomes 'st' (saint).
'try'+'st'='TRYST'

(Other definitions for tryst that I've seen before include "private meeting" , "Date" , "Romantic meeting" , "(Secret) meeting between lovers" , "An archaic lovers' meeting" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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