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confest en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (archaic, form-of, participle, past, poetic) simple past and past participle of confess
    form of confess
    • Your maſter, young man, may a laſs adore--- / For his laſs, ’tis confeſt, / He has choſen the beſt; / But he chuſes a woeful ambaſſador! 1785, [George Colman the Younger], Songs, Duetts, Trios, &c. N^([sic]) Turk and No Turk; a Musical Comedy. Performed at the Theatre-Royal in the Hay-Market., London: […] T. Cadell, […], page 21:
    • […] I wish it may not displease others; for, I have confest there are many defects in it. 1676, Izaak Walton, The Compleat Angler:
    • 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. 1840, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
    • What though her face confest a darker shade? 1783, William Godwin, Four Early Pamphlets:

Deriveds

confestly