"confest" meaning in English

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          "text": "[…] I wish it may not displease others; for, I have confest there are many defects in it.",
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          "ref": "1783, William Godwin, Four Early Pamphlets:",
          "text": "What though her face confest a darker shade?",
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          "text": "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.",
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