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Dix

[diks]
–noun
1. Dorothea Lynde [lind] , (Dorothy), 1802–87, U.S. educator and social reformer.
2. Otto, 1891–1969, German painter and printmaker.
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Dix, Dorothea

Nineteenth-century reformer who protested the practice of confining the mentally ill in prisons and whose labors led to the expansion and improvement of mental hospitals.

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