dorothea lynde dix

Noun dorothea lynde dix has 1 sense

• dorothea lynde dix(n = noun.person) dix, dorothea 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);
is a kind of crusader, meliorist, reformer, reformist, social reformer