dorothea dix

Noun dorothea dix has 1 sense

• dorothea dix(n = noun.person) dix, dorothea lynde dix - United States social reformer who pioneered in the reform of prisons and in the treatment of the mentally ill; superintended women army nurses during the American Civil War (1802-1887); Array
is a kind of crusader, meliorist, reformer, reformist, social reformer