- a variation of lodestar.
loadstar
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Now that the landmark ruling is gone, the movement is struggling to find a new loadstar.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 21, 2023
Feeling, moreover, that the Lady Rich, celebrated in his sonnets, was the loadstar of his affections, he designates her, in conformity with his own assumed name, Stella.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 13, November, 1858 by Various
Ernest Linwood was the loadstar of the scene, and whoever he distinguished by his attention must be conspicuous by association.
From Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author by Caroline Lee Hentz
The needle pointed ever to that interest Which was his loadstar, and he spread his sails With vantage to the gale of others' passion.
From Kenilworth by Sir Walter Scott
Thou bright eye of the Mine! thou loadstar of The soul! the true magnetic Pole to which All hearts point duly north, like trembling needles!
From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry by Ernest Hartley Coleridge
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