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
His virtues, and they were great ones, proved in all respects promotive of his worldly welfare.
From Benjamin Franklin A Picture of the Struggles of Our Infant Nation One Hundred Years Ago American Pioneers and Patriots Series by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)
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
It Is promotive of knowledge and progress in every community where it circulates.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
