in good part

English

Prepositional phrase

in good part

1. 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."

Antonyms

• in bad part, in ill part