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

Nothing is more promotive of digestion than laughter.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

Healthful signifies promotive of health, tending or adapted to confer, preserve, or promote health; as, a healthful climate.

From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by Fernald, James Champlin

These were found to be either abnormal and handicapping such as emotional parturition; or stimulative and promotive, as dynamogenic reaction.

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