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Your understanding of this is a fundamental requirement when building a team.

In delegation you hand over the task but retain the blame. If something goes horribly wrong you stand beside your team member or in front of your team member and take the blame from the external source that are complaining because things went wrong (it's as likely to go wrong as it is to go wrong for your team)

Abdication is the passing over of tasks and blame. It is giving someone a job to do, not explaining it properly and then shouting at them when they don't do it well enough.

Re-examine the way you pass tasks over within your practice. Delegation is essential or else you die. Abdication leads to your death as no one wants to work for you, mistakes happen all the time in a culture where blame is endemic but also avoided wherever possible by everyone involved.