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Subtle daughter follows sister around a church (7)

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nuanced

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'subtle' is the definition.
The answer and definition are not the same part of speech. However, adjectives and past participle verbs sometimes define each other.

'daughter follows sister around a church' is the wordplay.
'daughter' becomes 'd' (genealogical abbreviation).
'follows' says to put letters next to each other.
'sister' becomes 'nun' (sister is a term of address for a nun).
'around' is an insertion indicator.
'church' becomes 'CE' (abbreviation for Church of England).
'nun' going around 'a' is 'nuan'.
'nuan'+'ce'='nuance'
'd' after 'nuance' is 'NUANCED'.

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(Other definitions for nuanced that I've seen before include "Subtly differentiated" , "With subtly different shade of meaning" , "Subtly varied" , "Given subtle variation" , "with distinction" .)

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