promotive
Example Sentences
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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
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
Freedom of discussion is highly promotive of the power of protection.
From Diary in America, Series Two by Marryat, Frederick
It Is promotive of knowledge and progress in every community where it circulates.
