  Photospheric nitrogen abundances for a sample of 26 Be stars and 16 normal B
stars were found using high-resolution spectra from the Magnetism in Massive
Stars (MiMeS) spectroscopic survey. Nitrogen abundances were obtained using
non-LTE equivalent widths and line profiles, and Monte Carlo simulation was
used to determine the error bounds of the measured nitrogen abundances due to
uncertainties in the adopted stellar parameters, continuum normalization, and
atomic data. In addition, the effects of the gravitational darkening and disk
contamination on the measured Be star nitrogen abundances were investigated.
About one third of the sample Be stars and half of the normal B-type stars have
nitrogen enrichments that may be due to rotational mixing in these rapidly
rotating objects. Corrections for gravitational darkening and disk
contamination do not significantly change the overall results for the Be star
sample. The average nitrogen abundance of the B and Be star samples coincide
with the solar abundance, although the dispersion in the nitrogen abundances is
much larger in the Be star sample. The Be star sample also has a significant
fraction of sub-solar nitrogen abundance objects which are not present in
significant numbers in the B star sample. This may point to yet unresolved
systematic errors in the analysis of the Be stars
