Silver pressing on primate's Christian love (5)
I believe the answer is:
agape
'christian love' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'silver pressing on primate's' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'silver' could be 'ag' (Ag is the chemical symbol for silver) and 'ag' is found in the answer.
'primate' could be 'ape' (large primate) and 'ape' is located in the answer.
No letters remain.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for agape that I've seen before include "love feast" , "ecclesiastical feast" , "Christian's love" , "the love of God!" , "Christian feast" .)