Antedating of "Agnostic"

[Fred Shapiro]

agnostic (OED 1870)

1869 _Spectator_ 29 May 642  All these considerations, and the great
controversies which suggest them, are in the highest degree cultivating,
and will be admitted to be so even by those Agnostics who think them
profitless of any practical result.

Fred Shapiro


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