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promotive

American  
[pruh-moh-tiv] / prəˈmoʊ tɪv /

adjective

  1. tending to promote.

promotive British  
/ prəˈməʊtɪv /

adjective

  1. tending to promote

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Other Word Forms

  • nonpromotive adjective
  • promotiveness noun
  • unpromotive adjective

Etymology

Origin of promotive

First recorded in 1635–45; promote + -ive

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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These are found to be either abnormal and handicapping, such as, emotional parturition; or stimulative and promotive, such as the dynamogenic reactions.

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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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