confest
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɛst
Verb
confest
- (archaic or poetic) simple past and past participle of confess
- 1676, Izaak Walton, The Compleat Angler[1]:
- […] I wish it may not displease others; for, I have confest there are many defects in it.
- 1783, William Godwin, Four Early Pamphlets[2]:
- What though her face confest a darker shade?
- 1840, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, (Please provide the book title or journal name)[3]:
- 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.