promotive

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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

He found this action amazingly promotive of verbal accuracy.

From The Panchronicon by MacKaye, Harold Steele

Where a proper supply of domestic exercise cannot be afforded, the cultivation of flowers and fruits might be resorted to, as a delightful and unfailing promotive of pleasure and health.

From A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School by Beecher, Catharine Esther

Nothing is more promotive of digestion than laughter.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various