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

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

I shall doubt hereafter whether superior intelligence is promotive of superior virtue.

From A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by Jones, John Beauchamp

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