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

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

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

He published in Leipsic a journal promotive of his school of music, and founded a choral society in Dresden.

From The Story of the Hymns and Tunes by Brown, Theron