promotively

English

Etymology

promotive +‎ -ly

Adverb

promotively (comparative more promotively, superlative most promotively)

1. In a promotive manner
   • 2009 April 3, Amanda Hopkinson, “Helen Levitt”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     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".