Assertion: nymph | /r/CapableOf | absorb into their ranks
Facets:
value: gradually
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: In some of the works of the Greek-educated Latin poets, the nymphs gradually absorbed into their ranks the indigenous Italian divinities of springs and streams (Juturna, Egeria, Carmentis, Fontus) while the Lymphae (originally Lumpae), Italian water goddesses, owing to the accidental similarity of their names, could be identified with the Greek Nymphae.