Meanings
comparative more promotively · superlative most promotively
- In a promotive manner
1 more example
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
- Proto-Indo-European*per-der.?
- Proto-Indo-European*pér
- Proto-Indo-European*pró
- Proto-Indo-European*pro-
- Proto-Italic*pro-
- Latinprō-
- Proto-Indo-European*m(y)ewh₁-
- Proto-Indo-European*m(y)owh₁éyeti
- Proto-Italic*moweō
- Latinmoveō
- Latinprōmoveō
- Latinprōmōtus
- Englishpromote
- Englishpromotive
- Englishpromotively
Cite this entry
promotively. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/promotively
“promotively.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/promotively. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “promotively,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/promotively.
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