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Power with office in Church leadership has validity (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

accuracy

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'validity' is the definition.
(I know that validity can be written as accuracy)

'power with office' is the wordplay.
'power' becomes 'AC' (AC is an example).
'with' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'office' becomes 'curacy' (curacy is a kind of office).
'ac'+'curacy'='ACCURACY'

'in church leadership has' is the link.
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(Other definitions for accuracy that I've seen before include "Truthfulness" , "Correctness - exactitude" , "Correctness, nearness to truth" , "Precision of detail" , "Correctness, precision" .)

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