from, An Exaltation of Larks by James Lipton A Host of Angels An interesting story this. J. Donald Adams, in The Magic and Mystery of Words, says, "Angels in an quantity may be referred to only as a host. The word's title to that distinction is clear enough; host derives from the Latin hostis, meaning enemy, and hence came to mean an army. It was presumably applied to angels as the warriors of God."
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