Wholly plagiarised dialect in novel (9)
I believe the answer is:
identical
'wholly plagiarised' is the definition.
The answer and definition are different parts of speech. However, adjectives and past participle verbs sometimes mean the same thing.
'dialect in novel' is the wordplay.
'novel' indicates anagramming the letters (letters in a new or novel order).
'dialect'+'in'='dialectin'
'dialectin' is an anagram of 'IDENTICAL'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for identical that I've seen before include "Selfsame" , "Exactly alike, the same in every detail" , "Duplicate" , "Impossible to tell apart" , "lacking distinction" .)