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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
in good part en · ADP
Meanings
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Favourably, without offence. (Chiefly with take.)
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."
2012 April 4, Martin Wainwright, The Guardian:we ought to take it in good part, as from a most wise and thrice-friendly-hand.
1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
Antonyms
in ill part · in bad part