innovatory

adjective

in·​no·​va·​to·​ry -vəˌtōrē 

-ˌvātərē

chiefly British

: innovative

… the blending of traditional and innovatory methods in early Tudor armies was probably a development of precedents from the Wars of the Roses, not a completely new one.

—Anthony Goodman, The War of the Roses, 1981

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