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

A word from him would have relieved them at any moment in the manner most acceptable to them and most promotive of peaceful results.

From The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government by Davis, Jefferson

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

Freedom of discussion is highly promotive of the power of protection.

From Diary in America, Series Two by Marryat, Frederick