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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



... me or not, I ask you to listen to me. I know of no woman for whose talents I have a greater admiration, or for whose qualities I have a more sincere affection than yourself. Since I have known you, you have been the lodestar of my existence, the fountain of my inspiration. I feel that, were your life joined to mine, the joint path upon which we trod would be the path to happiness, such as I have as yet hardly dared to dream of. In short, dear Miss Prendergast, I ask you to marry me, and I will ...
— The Holiday Round • A. A. Milne
... let her eyes wander over the drawing. And her feelings for Lancelot amounted almost to worship, as she apprehended the harmonious unity of the manifold conception,—the rugged boldness of the groups in front, the soft grandeur of the figure which was the lodestar of all their emotions- -the virginal purity of the whole. And when she fancied that she traced in those bland aquiline lineaments, and in the crisp ringlets which floated like a cloud down to the knees of the figure, some traces of her own likeness, ...
— Yeast: A Problem • Charles Kingsley
... the loadstar of heauenly lookes, Wends poore oppressed Balthazar, As ore the mountains walkes the wanderer Incertain ...
— The Spanish Tragedie • Thomas Kyd


Words linked to "Lodestar" :   North Star, example, model, polestar, Polaris, star, loadstar, pole star


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