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

He found this action amazingly promotive of verbal accuracy.

From The Panchronicon by MacKaye, Harold Steele

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