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

The cultivation of flowers is eminently promotive of health, refinement of manners, and good taste.

From Soil Culture by Walden, J. H.

Wire nettings hidden by shrubberies from all but the shameless trespasser you will find far more effective, more promotive to beauty and more courteous.

From The Amateur Garden by Cable, George Washington

While I believe that many suggestions may be made, useful to the young enjoyer and promotive of his wise vagrancy, I shall not undertake here the complicated task of offering them.

From The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education by Palmer, Alice Freeman