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
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
While I believe that many suggestions may be made, useful to the young enjoyer and promotive of his wise vagrancy, I shall not undertake here the complicated task of offering them.
From The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education by Palmer, Alice Freeman
I, 8, an apology for the moral wholesomeness of civilization, since promotive of military prowess, favorable to the development of the sciences, and even poetical.
From Principles Of Political Economy by Lalor, John J. (John Joseph)
