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
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 Scott, Walter, Sir
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
Hard as adamant, uncompromising, ruthless, Vittoria follows ambition as the loadstar of her life.
From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series by Brown, Horatio Robert Forbes
He was firm in his conviction that she would make him happy, would be his loadstar through life.
From The Progressionists, and Angela. by Bolanden, Conrad von
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