Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #12653 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

hoastshosts

Everything else the mechanical classes do not explain: shew → show, then → than.

Puritas changed it: 744 times in 354 works
Consistency: 99.8% (744 of 745)
Reach if approved: ~783 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: hosts
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 745 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (744 changes in 354 works, 99.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 744)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… grace and holinesse in their liues: you take vp armes against the Lord of HoastsHosts, and King of heauen, and wrecke your soules vpon that rocke, and sinne against …
With rule
… grace and holinesse in their liues: you take vp armes against the Lord of HoastsHosts, and King of heauen, and wrecke your soules vpon that rocke, and sinne against …
William Prynne · The Perpetuity of a Regenerate Mans Estate · Open in the reader
Printed
… Prophet foretold. Come, saith I…hu, and see my zeale for the Lord of hoastshosts. Ahab humbled himselfe, Herod heard Ioh… gladly, and did many things, the foolish virgins …
With rule
… Prophet foretold. Come, saith I…hu, and see my zeale for the Lord of hoastshosts. Ahab humbled himselfe, Herod heard Ioh… gladly, and did many things, the foolish virgins …
Edward Reynolds · Three Treatises · p. 297 · Open in the reader
Printed
… And what are all the Creatures but Gods hoastshosts? He is the Lord of HoastsHosts: and (as the Rabbines well obserue) hee hath two generall troopes, as his horse …
With rule
… And what are all the Creatures but Gods hoastshosts? He is the Lord of HoastsHosts: and (as the Rabbines well obserue) hee hath two generall troopes, as his horse …
Thomas Gataker · An Anniversary Memorial · p. 10 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the minde be troubled, who dareth meete with the wrath of the Lorde of HoastsHosts? who can put to silence the voice of desperation? who will step out and …
With rule
… the minde be troubled, who dareth meete with the wrath of the Lorde of HoastsHosts? who can put to silence the voice of desperation? who will step out and …
Richard Greenham · Two Treatises Comforting an Afflicted Conscience · p. 8 · Open in the reader
Printed
… gifts; the siluer is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the Lord of hoastshosts. Hag. 2. 9. and he is but the steward of them, and shall be called to …
With rule
… gifts; the siluer is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the Lord of hoastshosts. Hag. 2. 9. and he is but the steward of them, and shall be called to …
Arthur Hildersham · Lectures Upon John 4 · p. 238 · Open in the reader
Printed
… extolled that beareth up the whole frame of Heaven and earth, and all the hoaſtshosts of them? How bleſſed are they that have ſo mighty an Emperour over them?
With rule
… extolled that beareth up the whole frame of Heaven and earth, and all the hoaſtshosts of them? How bleſſed are they that have ſo mighty an Emperour over them?
Paul Baynes · Commentary Upon Colossians 1 and 2 · p. 94 · Open in the reader
Printed
… following, v. 25. where it is further added of the ſame Iſrael, The Lord of hoaſtshosts ſhall bleſſe it, ſaying, Bleſsed be my people. According to this expoſition, theſe words …
With rule
… following, v. 25. where it is further added of the ſame Iſrael, The Lord of hoaſtshosts ſhall bleſſe it, ſaying, Bleſsed be my people. According to this expoſition, theſe words …
Sebastian Benefield · Sermon Preached 24 March 1610 · p. 7 · Open in the reader
Printed
… doe nothing but as it is commanded by God; he is the Lord of HoastsHosts, who commandeth all the creatures, as the Generall doth his army. A man having …
With rule
… doe nothing but as it is commanded by God; he is the Lord of HoastsHosts, who commandeth all the creatures, as the Generall doth his army. A man having …
John Preston · Four Godly and Learned Treatises · p. 7 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Private Thank-Oblation A96742

Printed
The Victorious LORD of HOASTSHOSTS.
With rule
The Victorious LORD of HOASTSHOSTS.
George Wither · A Private Thank-Oblation · p. 3 · Open in the reader