judge vs pole star

judge

noun
  • A person who evaluates something or forms an opinion. 

  • A person who decides the fate of someone or something that has been called into question. 

  • A person officiating at a sports event, a contest, or similar. 

  • A public official whose duty it is to administer the law, especially by presiding over trials and rendering judgments; a justice. 

  • A shophet, a temporary leader appointed in times of crisis in ancient Israel. 

verb
  • To govern as biblical judge or shophet (over some jurisdiction). 

  • To form an opinion; to infer. 

  • To judicially rule or determine. 

  • To arbitrate; to pass opinion on something, especially to settle a dispute etc. 

  • To sit in judgment, to act as judge. 

  • To form an opinion on; to appraise. 

  • To sit in judgment on; to pass sentence on (a person or matter). 

  • To have as an opinion; to consider, suppose. 

  • To criticize or label another person or thing. 

pole star

noun
  • A person, principle, or thing which acts as a guide; a guiding light; also, something which attracts much attention; a centre of attention. 

  • The star visible to the naked eye which was in the past, is now, or will be in the future nearest a celestial pole of a planet. 

How often have the words judge and pole star occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )