promotive
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Members: >Stately, handsome John A. Hastings, promotive vanguard of the great bonanza.
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But it presented a casebook example of what every able banker knows, viz.: that greatest modern fortunes are made not by promotive spurts and manipulations, but by continuous manufacture and trade.
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This is, no doubt, promotive of health, provided it is not at first carried to an extreme.
From The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews by Lunettes, Henry
Therefore he will have no divisions and sects over this point; rather he wills that such diversity of gifts and offices be promotive of unity.
From Epistle Sermons, Vol. III Trinity Sunday to Advent by Luther, Martin
Healthful signifies promotive of health, tending or adapted to confer, preserve, or promote health; as, a healthful climate.
From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by Fernald, James Champlin