Leave home finally? Rather! (5)

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quite

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'rather' is the definition.
(synonyms)

'leave home finally?' is the wordplay.
'leave' becomes 'quit' (quitting is a kind of leaving).
'home finally?' becomes 'e' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'quit'+'e'='QUITE'

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(Other definitions for quite that I've seen before include "To a degree" , "Fairly; indeed" , "Completely -- to some extent" , "Somewhat; fully" , "Somewhat; completely" .)

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