There were many children whose deservingness he recognized and rewarded.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Adjective : the deserving poor; a deserving applicant. ,a criminal deserving of a lifetime sentence.    From Dictionary.com. 

The birther movement, Lewis argued, is completely fueled by this emotional connection to deservingness, which is primed primarily by racial resentment.    From Wordnik.com.  [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference

In fact, because those are measures of "deservingness", of worth, it's probably fair to a large degree.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-02-01] Reference

You know, the people who have a sense of entitlement or deservingness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deborah Norville: An Excerpt From Thank You Power: Making The Science Of Gratitude Work For You] Reference

Our deservingness of respect lies not in the regard of our schools or the designation of our degrees, but in our intentions.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhD vs MD: difference? Elitism] Reference

There is a sense of failure and self-deservingness where you think you have the right to walk away from the place with beach vacation best friends and final loves, the pages that confirm an assumed prophecy.    From Wordnik.com.  [RailRoads] Reference

The failure of the CPSC to act when alerted to this cadmium danger further illustrates her dereliction in protecting America's children from life-threatening toxins, and her deep deservingness of a public pillory -- one in which none of the clasps contain lead or cadmium, of course.    From Wordnik.com.  [Leo W. Gerard: Protecting Our Kids from Cadmium-laden "Sassy Chic" Bracelets] Reference

And that idea is deservingness, the protestant work ethic and individualism.    From Wordnik.com.  [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference

It was the way he spoke, the way he looked, his general patheticness, his very helplessness, and deservingness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Humorous Ghost Stories] Reference

But it is not hard to detect a general sense that the factors usually thought to confer deservingness are not enough under our control to be the source of moral claims.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obsidian Wings] Reference

Andrew Oswald, professor of economics at Warwick University, observes that a search for the words "deservedness" and "deservingness" in the economic literature on pay draws a blank.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

I dunno, I wouldn’t put him at the bottom of the list, if I were ranking deservingness of the 96 individual Peace Prize recipients.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » The psychology of prizes] Reference

OTOH, it is not clear that that inequality would have to be of an economic nature, and it certainly isn’t clear that making more money is somehow proof of virtue or deservingness, since that would be putting the cart before the horse.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Venezuela] Reference

It is not clear that that inequality would have to be of an economic nature, and it certainly isn’t clear that making more money is somehow proof of virtue or deservingness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Venezuela] Reference

Without deservingness or help of ours.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell] Reference

A form of deservingness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

(deservingness).    From Wordnik.com.  [Egalitarianism] Reference