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

The guards are composed of boys who voluntarily devote a certain amount of time, out of school hours, to exercises promotive of a virile and intelligent patriotism.

From The Arena Volume 18, No. 93, August, 1897 by Various

This, I am quite sure, will be found not only compatible with, but promotive of, the widest and most permanent advantage to commerce and civilization.

From The Panama Canal A history and description of the enterprise by Mills, J. Saxon

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