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Definition of Promotive
1. Adjective. Tending to further or encourage.
Definition of Promotive
1. a. Tending to advance, promote, or encourage.
Definition of Promotive
1. Adjective. Tending to promote ¹
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Definition of Promotive
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Promotive
Literary usage of Promotive
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Divine Pedigree of Man, Or, The Testimony of Evolution and Psychology to by Thomson Jay Hudson (1899)
"Science is promotive of all Truth.— There are not two Antagonistic Orders of Truth.
— Truth the only Basis of Reconciliation between Religion and Science. ..."
2. The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses by George Washington (1847)
"... hand of Providence for raising it to honor and dignity, and making it promotive
of the happiness of mankind, is the sincere wish of, Sir, &c. ..."
3. The Massachusetts Teacher (1850)
"... in supporting the schools and sustaining teachers in their plans and government.
MAKE KNOWN WHAT YOU KNOW, OR TEACHING promotive OF SELF-CULTURE. ..."
4. General History of the Christian Religion and Church by August Neander, Joseph Torrey (1851)
"... of these determinate circumstances, have answered best to the spirit of
Christianity, and been most promotive of its free, uncorrupted manifestation. ..."
5. Selected Cases and Statutes on the Law of Bankruptcy by Samuel Williston (1902)
"... of our well-settled policy in such cases, — a policy founded in comity and
promotive of justice.1 FRANK v. BOBBITT. SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT OF ..."
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