Unlettered

But, since a large proportion (nearly 90 per cent) are unlettered, with many unfit for physical labour due to old age, two square meals is about the best they can get.

This is a common mistake among the unlettered, and Bissinger is a fine writer, so let’s assume it’s a simple typo.

Narayan used to visit his wife once a year and the only communication the couple had was through letters which too were read by someone else to Basanti, who was unlettered.

His unlettered father Misri Ram worked as a driver in Delhi nursing a dream to see his son become a big man.

Perhaps the Glovers would not stand for the Puritans’ intolerance and proselytizing attempts; perhaps, as an unlettered woman, Goody Glover could not communicate with the educated, ambitious Puritans.

They want people to remain unlettered, unaware.

On the same time, a segment of the often unlettered audience that accepted everything in the name of faith.

The Church is the largest nongovernmental organization on the planet, through which selfless women and men care for the poor, teach the unlettered, heal the sick, and work to preserve minimal standards of the common good.

They ask how an unlettered Kunhikkannu is trading in books and jails him after finding a “prohibited book” in his collection.

Opposite to this, Hasidic teachings cherished the sincerity and concealed holiness of the unlettered common folk, and their equality with the scholarly elite.