lodestone

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

noun a permanent magnet consisting of magnetite that possess polarity and has the power to attract as well as to be attracted magnetically

First attested from 1515, from Middle English lode (“guide”) + stone. From use as a guide tool by mariners. See also: lodestar.

But these details were only secondary matters—his face was the lodestone that chained the eye. — Roughing It, Mark Twain
When he was out on a canvass, his name was a lodestone which drew the farmers to his stump from fifty miles around. — Life on the Mississippi, Mark Twain
But the lodestone which drew and held the eyes of all the revellers was an exquisitely slender, girlish figure amid the broken crust of the pie. — The Satyricon — Complete, Petronius Arbiter

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