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1878 Brit. & Foreign Evangelical Rev. Jan. 39 We are not asked, indeed, to give up altogether,..our belief in the Bible doctrines of man's sin and guilt, of salvation by grace, [etc.]..but we are asked, on philosophical and critical grounds, to treat these not as sure and most vital truths, but agnostically, that is to say, to let them alone and not attempt to settle them.

1882 Daily News 7 Dec. 5/3 In one of his latest books he brought an agnostically-minded hero on the scene.

1917 Nation (N.Y.) 12 July 37/2 The trouble is that most scientists neglect to acquaint themselves with metaphysics, and undertake to settle matters metaphysical not at all agnostically, but most dogmatically.

1962 W. H. Bruford Culture & Society in Classical Weimar iii. 157 Charlotte had been religiously brought up,..but in maturity she showed no sign of Pietistic fervour,..but was certainly tolerant and probably agnostically inclined.

2005 D. Spooner Insect-populated Mind ii. xi. 88 In overthrowing Paley's argument for the existence of God—which might agnostically be read as Perfection—from design, Darwin simultaneously threw out most of the aesthetic sense.