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

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

Henry May, a member of Congress, who had introduced a resolution which he hoped would be promotive of peace, was another of those arrested and thrown into prison.

From The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government by Davis, Jefferson

The cultivation of flowers is eminently promotive of health, refinement of manners, and good taste.

From Soil Culture by Walden, J. H.