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

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

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.

Nothing is more promotive of digestion than laughter.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various