promotive

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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

Healthful signifies promotive of health, tending or adapted to confer, preserve, or promote health; as, a healthful climate.

From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by Fernald, James Champlin

This is, no doubt, promotive of health, provided it is not at first carried to an extreme.

From The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews by Lunettes, Henry

Not till then can they be sure that their gifts will be promotive of good.

From Cannibals all! or, Slaves without masters by Fitzhugh, George