promotively

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adverb

In a promotive manner

Scrabble 21

Meanings

adverbpromotively (comparative more promotively, superlative most promotively)

comparative more promotively · superlative most promotively

  1. In a promotive manner
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    But perhaps it should be left to her long-term collaborator, Agee, to sum up the work as "the record of an ancient, primitive, transient and immortal civilisation, incomparably superior to our own", and its creator as "one of a handful who have to be described as good artists, not loosely, or arrogantly, or promotively, but simply because no other description will do".

    2009 April 3, Amanda Hopkinson, “Helen Levitt”, in The Guardian

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*per-der.?
  2. Proto-Indo-European*pér
  3. Proto-Indo-European*pró
  4. Proto-Indo-European*pro-
  5. Proto-Italic*pro-
  6. Latinprō-
  7. Proto-Indo-European*m(y)ewh₁-
  8. Proto-Indo-European*m(y)owh₁éyeti
  9. Proto-Italic*moweō
  10. Latinmoveō
  11. Latinprōmoveō
  12. Latinprōmōtus
  13. Englishpromote
  14. Englishpromotive
  15. Englishpromotively

From promotive + -ly.

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APA

promotively. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/promotively

MLA

“promotively.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/promotively. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “promotively,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/promotively.

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