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

Freedom of discussion is highly promotive of the power of protection.

From Diary in America, Series Two by Marryat, Frederick

His virtues, and they were great ones, proved in all respects promotive of his worldly welfare.

From Benjamin Franklin A Picture of the Struggles of Our Infant Nation One Hundred Years Ago American Pioneers and Patriots Series by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)

Therefore he will have no divisions and sects over this point; rather he wills that such diversity of gifts and offices be promotive of unity.

From Epistle Sermons, Vol. III Trinity Sunday to Advent by Luther, Martin