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Synonyms of cynosure
1
a guiding or motivating purpose or principle
- with an unwavering commitment to equal rights for all as his only cynosure
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2
a thing or place that is of greatest importance to an activity or interest
- that company is the cynosure for anyone wishing to make it in the music business
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- attraction,
- lodestone
- (also loadstone),
- magnet,
- polestar
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The first known use of cynosure was in 1565
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