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

This, I am quite sure, will be found not only compatible with, but promotive of, the widest and most permanent advantage to commerce and civilization.

From The Panama Canal A history and description of the enterprise by Mills, J. Saxon

He found this action amazingly promotive of verbal accuracy.

From The Panchronicon by MacKaye, Harold Steele

But SELF-knowledge is, of all its other kinds, both the most useful and promotive of personal and universal happiness and success.

From The Illustrated Self-Instructor in Phrenology and Physiology by Fowler, L. N.