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

He published in Leipsic a journal promotive of his school of music, and founded a choral society in Dresden.

From The Story of the Hymns and Tunes by Brown, Theron

In the government of Ireland, his administration had been equally promotive of his master's interest, and that of the subjects committed to his care.

From The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part E. From Charles I. to Cromwell by Hume, David

I, 8, an apology for the moral wholesomeness of civilization, since promotive of military prowess, favorable to the development of the sciences, and even poetical.

From Principles Of Political Economy by Lalor, John J. (John Joseph)