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

He published in Leipsic a journal promotive of his school of music, and founded a choral society in Dresden.

From The Story of the Hymns and Tunes by Brown, Theron

This, I am quite sure, will be found not only compatible with, but promotive of, the widest and most permanent advantage to commerce and civilization.

From The Panama Canal A history and description of the enterprise by Mills, J. Saxon

This is, no doubt, promotive of health, provided it is not at first carried to an extreme.

From The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews by Lunettes, Henry