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promotive

[pruh-moh-tiv] / prəˈmoʊ tɪv /


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Members: >Stately, handsome John A. Hastings, promotive vanguard of the great bonanza.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Undoubtedly the list of promotive causes is considerably augmented by maltreatment and the employment of injudicious remedies.

From Manhood Perfectly Restored Prof. Jean Civiale's Soluble Urethral Crayons as a Quick, Painless, and Certain Cure for Impotence, Etc. by Civiale Remedial Agency

It Is promotive of knowledge and progress in every community where it circulates.

From Scientific American, Vol. XLIII.?No. 1. [New Series.], July 3, 1880 A Weekly Journal Of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, And Manufactures by Various

These are found to be either abnormal and handicapping, such as, emotional parturition; or stimulative and promotive, such as the dynamogenic reactions.

From Catastrophe and Social Change Based Upon a Sociological Study of the Halifax Disaster by Prince, Samuel Henry




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