weledelgestrenge heer

Dutch

weledelgestrenge heer m (plural weledelgestrenge heren, feminine weledelgestrenge vrouwe)

(archaic, formal) Used as a honorific and a salutation at the beginning of a formal letter when addressing a male alderman, vice-consul, consul, attaché, clerk to a court of administrative law, lawyer, candidate notary, notary, holder of a university engineering degree (ir.), holder of a university law degree (mr.), tax inspector, inspector of secondary education, member of the Provincial Estates, (chief) police inspector, police commissioner, mid-ranking civil servant, head of a secondary school, junior military officer, or knight of the Military William Order of enlisted or non-commissioned officer rank