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 vicinity of melting snow, or a melting iceberg, is unpleasant and promotive of catarrh and pulmonary diseases.

From Buchanan's Journal of Man, September 1887 Volume 1, Number 8 by Buchanan, Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes)

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

The cultivation of flowers is eminently promotive of health, refinement of manners, and good taste.

From Soil Culture by Walden, J. H.