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Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *pér Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *pró Proto-Indo-European *pro- Proto-Italic *pro- Latin prō- Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Indo-European *m(y)owh₁éyeti Proto-Italic *moweō Latin moveō Latin prōmoveō Latin prōmōtusbor. English promote Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Old French -ifbor. Middle English -yf English -ive English promotive Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English promotively From promotive + -ly.

Meanings

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

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