in good part
(Redirected from take in good part)
English
[edit]Prepositional phrase
[edit]- Favourably, without offence. (Chiefly with take.)
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
- we ought to take it in good part, as from a most wise and thrice-friendly-hand.
- 2012 April 4, Martin Wainwright, The Guardian:
- The Turner Prize's distinguished presenter Mario Testino, who was just starting on his speech at the time, took the intervention in good part, ad-libbing: "Art is everywhere."