promotive
Americanadjective
adjective
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- nonpromotive adjective
- promotiveness noun
- unpromotive adjective
Etymology
Origin of promotive
Example Sentences
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What is unwholesome is wrong; what is promotive of health and completeness for the individual and for the community is right.
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This is, no doubt, promotive of health, provided it is not at first carried to an extreme.
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It Is promotive of knowledge and progress in every community where it circulates.
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This policy is not however fully carried out with merely constructive and promotive action.
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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.
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