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promotive, a. (n.)|prəʊˈməʊtɪv|
[f. as promote v. + -ive, after motive a. Cf. Anglo-L. prōmōtīvus (1337 in Du Cange).]
Having the quality of promoting; tending to the promotion (of a thing).
1644J. Goodwin Innoc. Triumph. (1645) 76 They will use [it] rather in a destructive, then promotive way thereunto. 1680Relig. Dutch v. 46 Promotive to the advancement of Christian Religion. 1711Shaftesbury Charac. III. Misc. ii. iii. 98 Corroborative of Religion, and promotive of true Faith. 1824Miss Mitford Village Ser. i. 277 The air is so promotive of growth. 1882Fairbairn in Contemp. Rev. XLII. 860 Agencies powerfully promotive of human progress.
B. n. nonce-use. That which promotes or furthers something.
1793W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. XII. 286 To evolve its real promotives.
Hence proˈmotiveness, the quality of being promotive; tendency to promote or further.
a1866J. Grote Exam. Utilit. Philos. (1870) 251 He has defined utilitarianism as the philosophy which values one thing simply in regard of actions, viz. their promotiveness of happiness. 1874P. Smyth Our Inher. xi. 224 To set forth..their promotiveness to the fulness of thought as well as the material comforts of..man. |