and attacks against human rights (whose universality relies on - guess what ? - "natural law" and a divine origin). He even dared say religion shouldn't be part of any government... which would indeed appear pointless in his World where government is part of religion, and where no law is above God's law.After six days of lamentation and contrition the show is over. From John Paul II's rock star attitude towards Benedict XVI's self lapidation, nothing changes.Certainly not those other elderlies rolling stones in front of Scorsese's camera, and selling sympathy for the Devil to the masses.

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John McCain picked the one size fits all answer to Obama - Clinton : she is black and female, she enjoys youth and experience, she was in favor of the war inQ:

Can you say "and so, he was deserved of his sorry fate"?

Can you say

and so, he was deserved of his sorry fate ?

Would you pronounce deserved as deserve-ed, as is commonly done in poetic language?

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No, you can say only 'He deserved his sorry fate'. 'Deserved' has two syllables. There are no citations for 'deserved of' in the Corpus of Contemporary American English and only two in the British National Corpus.
You could say "He was deserving of his sorry fate". There are 72 citations for 'deserving of' in the BC and 570 in the COCA.

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I might spell it "deservéd" to indicate the pronunciation.

Because a friend who does forget things
Is deservéd not of mirth.
Jonathan White, "Six Months"

