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

These were found to be either abnormal and handicapping such as emotional parturition; or stimulative and promotive, as dynamogenic reaction.

From Catastrophe and Social Change Based Upon a Sociological Study of the Halifax Disaster by Prince, Samuel Henry

I shall doubt hereafter whether superior intelligence is promotive of superior virtue.

From A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by Jones, John Beauchamp

A word from him would have relieved them at any moment in the manner most acceptable to them and most promotive of peaceful results.

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