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
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 Jefferson Davis
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 Martin Luther
Our life on the ocean wave is a constant promotive of the appetite.
From Four Young Explorers or, Sight-Seeing in the Tropics by A. B. Shute
