promotive
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From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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He found this action amazingly promotive of verbal accuracy.
From The Panchronicon by Harold Steele MacKaye
This is, no doubt, promotive of health, provided it is not at first carried to an extreme.
From The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews by Henry Lunettes
Its influence is promotive of national selfishness, and makes against a brotherhood of nations.
From Religion and the War by Various