English

Verb

confest

1. (archaic or poetic) simple past tense and past participle of confess
   • 1676, Izaak Walton, The Compleat Angler:

     […] I wish it may not displease others; for, I have confest there are many defects in it.

   • 1783, William Godwin, Four Early Pamphlets:

     What though her face confest a darker shade?

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     1840, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, (Please provide the title of the work):

     Oh! bold Fighting Attie, the knowing, the natty, By us all it must sure be confest, Though your shoppers and snobbers are pretty good robbers, A soldier is always the best.