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Mark Liberman of the School of Arts and Sciences provided a linguistic history of the word ‘lodestar.’ “Going back to the 14th or 15th century, there’s a metaphoric use referring to not the pole star but to any principle or person or idea or goal used for guidance,” said Liberman.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/09/06/nixon-had-deep-throat-trump-has-lodestar-how-an-archaic-word-became-a-resistance-hashtag The Washington Post