promotive

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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

He found this action amazingly promotive of verbal accuracy.

From The Panchronicon by MacKaye, Harold Steele

Everything which stimulates men to exercise the nobler qualities of their nature is promotive of health and longevity; and the true religion which anthropology commends will increase human longevity in proportion as it prevails.

From Buchanan's Journal of Man, February 1887 Volume 1, Number 1 by Buchanan, Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes)

This policy is not however fully carried out with merely constructive and promotive action.

From Catastrophe and Social Change Based Upon a Sociological Study of the Halifax Disaster by Prince, Samuel Henry