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
Everything which stimulates men to exercise the nobler qualities of their nature is promotive of health and longevity; and the true religion which anthropology commends will increase human longevity in proportion as it prevails.
From Buchanan's Journal of Man, February 1887 Volume 1, Number 1 by Buchanan, Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes)
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
It Is promotive of knowledge and progress in every community where it circulates.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
