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Lodestar   Listen
noun
Lodestar, Loadstar  n.  
1.
A star that leads; a guiding star; esp., the polestar, Polaris; also, the constellation containing the pole star, the cynosure (Ursa Minor). " Your eyes are lodestars." "The pilot can no loadstar see."
2.
Something that serves as a guide or provides direction; a cynosure (2).
3.
Something that attracts attention or on which the atention is fixed; a cynosure (3).





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"Lodestar" Quotes from Famous Books



... unreckoned generations of the past—an ideal, shall I say, akin to that of the prophet of the French Revolution, Diderot, "elargissez Dieu!"—to liberate God within men's hearts, so that man's life shall be free, of itself and in itself, to set towards the lodestar of its being, harmony with the Divine. And it brings to the peoples of Africa, to whom the coming of this army is for good or evil so eventful, so fraught with consequences to the future ages of their race, some ...
— The Origins and Destiny of Imperial Britain - Nineteenth Century Europe • J. A. Cramb
... right nor to the left in the smallest particular, must accomplish his martyrdom prematurely on the pettiest side-issues, and would never live at all to assert at the stake the great truth which is the lodestar and goal ...
— The Woman Who Did • Grant Allen
... the top board of the fence. He was an energetic youth, but he liked to do his thinking at his ease. Now, as his gaze still followed its lodestar, he suddenly slipped from his seat and ran forward, pulling the revolver from its scabbard as he ran. Into his eyes had crept a tense alertness, the shining watchfulness of the tiger ready for ...
— Wyoming, a Story of the Outdoor West • William MacLeod Raine
... the loadstar of heauenly lookes, Wends poore oppressed Balthazar, As ore the mountains walkes the wanderer Incertain to effect ...
— The Spanish Tragedie • Thomas Kyd


Words linked to "Lodestar" :   polestar, star, Polaris, pole star


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