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

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

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

From Diary in America, Series Two by Marryat, Frederick

Our life on the ocean wave is a constant promotive of the appetite.

From Four Young Explorers or, Sight-Seeing in the Tropics by Shute, A. B.