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

Therefore he will have no divisions and sects over this point; rather he wills that such diversity of gifts and offices be promotive of unity.

From Epistle Sermons, Vol. III Trinity Sunday to Advent by Luther, Martin

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

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