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
Freedom of discussion is highly promotive of the power of protection.
From Diary in America, Series Two by Frederick Marryat
Our life on the ocean wave is a constant promotive of the appetite.
From Four Young Explorers or, Sight-Seeing in the Tropics by A. B. Shute
Therefore he will have no divisions and sects over this point; rather he wills that such diversity of gifts and offices be promotive of unity.
From Epistle Sermons, Vol. III Trinity Sunday to Advent by Martin Luther
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