Sentence:  I grew familiar with it by dawn-light and candlelight, to value its wan <WSD>marredness</WSD> more than beauty, to search for and to find in it that mother-pity which is the gift of so many childless women, and supremely the gift of such as have forsworn marriage from high and selfless motives. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  The state of being marred or spoilt.