Promoting
[prə'məutɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Promote
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Examples
- He generally, indeed, neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- I should have had inexpressible pleasure, I should have taken inexpressible interest, in promoting it. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I give her credit for promoting his going dutifully down to Bath, to fetch his mother; but how will she and the dowager agree in one house? Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Mrs. Dashwood seemed actually working for her, herself; cherishing all her hopes, and promoting all her views! Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- In such cases, though the individual merit of the inventor is small, the benefit conferred may be important, and may operate influentially in promoting the progress of civilization. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Not the least of the applications of the dynamo is its use in electro-metallurgy for plating metals, and also for promoting chemical reactions. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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