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Love a speech introducing Democrat (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

adoration

'love' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'a speech introducing democrat' is the wordplay.
'speech' becomes 'oration' (oration is a kind of speech**).
'introducing' means one lot of letters goes inside another (some letters introduced or inserted into others).
'democrat' becomes 'd'.
'a'+'oration'='aoration'
'aoration' going around 'd' is 'ADORATION'.

(Other definitions for adoration that I've seen before include "Deep love and respect" , "high regard" , "Worship, veneration" , "passionate allegiance" , "Hero-worship" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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