promotive

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Members: >Stately, handsome John A. Hastings, promotive vanguard of the great bonanza.

From Time Magazine Archive

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

While I believe that many suggestions may be made, useful to the young enjoyer and promotive of his wise vagrancy, I shall not undertake here the complicated task of offering them.

From The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education by Palmer, Alice Freeman

But SELF-knowledge is, of all its other kinds, both the most useful and promotive of personal and universal happiness and success.

From The Illustrated Self-Instructor in Phrenology and Physiology by Fowler, L. N.

Freedom of discussion is highly promotive of the power of protection.

From Diary in America, Series Two by Marryat, Frederick