promotive

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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.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

His virtues, and they were great ones, proved in all respects promotive of his worldly welfare.

From Benjamin Franklin A Picture of the Struggles of Our Infant Nation One Hundred Years Ago American Pioneers and Patriots Series by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)

Henry May, a member of Congress, who had introduced a resolution which he hoped would be promotive of peace, was another of those arrested and thrown into prison.

From The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government by Davis, Jefferson

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