reverencing

I speak always according to worldly notions, always reverencing those incomprehensible ways which are not our ways.

He answered quite steadily, though in a low tone, as if reverencing the presence of the dead.

Thus he spoke; but brave Diomede answered nothing, reverencing the rebuke of the venerable king.

Thus he spake; and they, reverencing the exhortation of their king, pressed on with more alacrity round their counsel-giving king.

Why not rather condemn impulse and exalt habits of reverencing order and fixed truth?