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"Agnostic" is a much more recent word than "atheist", coined by Thomas Huxley in 1869 to mean "without knowledge of God" and acquiring the usage of "being doubtful about the existence of God."

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Jim Herrick (1985). “Against the Faith: Essays on Deists, Skeptics, and Atheists”
Agnostic is a much more recent word than atheist, coined by Thomas Huxley in 1869 to mean without knowledge of God and acquiring the usage of being doubtful about the existence of God.