Promotively
adv ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 In a promotive manner
"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"."
Example
More examples"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"."
Etymology
From promotive + -ly.
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