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(archaic or poetic) simple past and past participle of confess quotations
[…] I wish it may not displease others; for, I have confest there are many defects in it.
1676, Izaak Walton, The Compleat Angler
What though her face confest a darker shade?
1783, William Godwin, Four Early Pamphlets
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)