People this poor have no collateral, no business experience and are often unlettered.
Many trial participants are too unlettered to understand what is going on.
He is as familiar with the opinion of Pope Gregory I in the seventh century that painting is "the gospel of the unlettered" as he is with the activity of an artist in Uganda, Ignatius Sserulyo, who in 1965 painted a scene of coffee-picking and studded the image with real beans fresh from the crop.
For such a small book it carries a heavy load, but Ms Warner's insights are both surprising and rewarding.Fairy tales originated in folklore, "not among an elite, but among the unlettered", she writes.
Yet to widespread surprise, including his family's, Mr Chandler soon set about turning the Times into a serious, intelligent and broadly fair-minded paper better suited to the increasingly varied people now pouring into southern California, not all of whom were as vacuous and unlettered as their reputation supposed.
At least 25 have been hacked to death or killed with poisoned arrows in Nyanza in the past few days.Across Luoland, from the unlettered to the university-educated, they tell the same tale of woe: that they have been politically and economically maltreated since independence.
He installed his unlettered wife in his stead.The BJP and its ally promise to rescue Bihar from Mr Yadav's "jungle raj".
The unlettered make no distinctions as to origins.
During the millennia since then written literature has been surrounded and sometimes all but overwhelmed by the humbler activity of the unlettered.
To be unlettered is no longer confused with being ignorant.
By the 6th century the Christian church had developed an extensive iconographic repertory, and Christian images were in use everywhere: both as icons, which functioned as focal points of worship, and as symbolic and narrative compositions, which proclaimed the mysteries of the faith and instructed the unlettered in the stories of sacred scripture.
