What is most closely the meaning of the word cult as it is used in the passage below (paragraph 15)?
Young writers increasingly wanted to reduce the Enlightenment’s emphasis on reason. One solution was to replace it with a kind of sympathetic feeling called “sensibility.” Whereas in the seventeenth century the physician William Harvey discovered that the heart was responsible for the circulation of the blood, the Romantics were far more interested in the way the heart represents the origin of emotion than in its mechanics. This cult of sensibility first emphasized the physical reactions we have when our hearts are moved—blushing, turning pale, and fainting. They read these visible movements of the blood as signs of inner moral sympathy and virtue.
Question 6 options:
A)
adjective | odd or supernatural
B)
noun | a devotional organization with sinister practices and methods of recruitment
C)
adjective | popular among a limited audience
D)
noun | a devotion to an idea, movement, person, or work